Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kent Conrad

I found him to be extraordinarily intelligent, and he has assured me that he brings no ideological agenda to the Supreme Court. He wants to be a justice for all of the people.

I don't have a set agenda for the future. I just want to become as involved in the community as possible.

Maxine Waters

I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.

Ollanta Humala

I'd just say the situations in our two countries - Venezuela and Peru - are completely different. The fact that we have an important agenda of change here doesn't mean that we want to join in the ideological conflict between Venezuela and the United States.

I don't know what his agenda is. I have to listen to what he has to say. I vote for the man who I think is going to do the best job for the state.

Saxby Chambliss

I don't know what Katrina is going to do to budget reconciliation overall, ... There's simply no way that we can carry out the agenda that we had in place at the end of July, that we thought we would be dealing with today, just because of Katrina.

Bob Geldof

I don't care who I have to get to, to make this agenda work. They must know that I am in no one's pocket, that I am not beholden to anyone.

Ben Nelson

I came to this decision after careful consideration of his impeccable judicial credentials, the American Bar Association's strong recommendation and his pledge that he would not bring a political agenda to the court.

Edward Ruscha

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Allen West

I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.

Andrew Cuomo

I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life.

The fact that this was the only significant veto left untouched yesterday shows the success of New York's energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. We're hopeful that we've now closed the chapter on this debate and that we can move forward with the legislature and the Governor on an ambitious agenda to build and strengthen clean energy efforts in New York.

Douglas Wilson

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

Ken Ham

Anti-Christian ideology has permeated much of the secular news media, and so often Biblical Christians are mocked, misrepresented or attacked for what they believe by anti-Christian agenda driven reporters.

Katrina pretty much stops his legislative agenda cold.

Condoleezza Rice

John Bolton is personally committed to the future success of the United Nations, and he will be a strong voice for reform at a time when the United Nations has begun to reform itself to help meet the challenging agenda before the international community.

Michael Medved

I think it combines an outrageously obvious agenda with outstanding artistry.

It appears Roy Moore is campaigning on an agenda that echoes the same positions Gov. Riley has already taken. Most of the issues Roy Moore outlined (Monday) were detailed in Gov. Riley's Plan for Change back in 2002, and Gov. Riley has worked ever since then to implement them.

Lee H. Hamilton

He certainly has kept his agenda in front of us,

Tony Judt

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

Shakira

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

John Cornyn

to extraordinary and unprecedented measures to obstruct the business of the American people. Because the Democrats have no ideas or agenda of their own, they've made an awkward attempt at changing the subject.

Marsha Blackburn

Here in Tennessee, instead of the big spending, big government, job killing agenda of the Obama Administration, Tennesseans have tightened their belts and are struggling to find jobs that will enable them to support their families.

Howard Dean

Hard-working Americans will see through this President's effort to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

Jeff Sessions

I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.

It is a highly focused agenda on storm recovery issues, as well as seeking the budget she wants.

I think the energy agenda will be carried forward perhaps a bit more diplomatically.

Tom Cole

I think the congressional agenda has been more realistic and frankly more limited than Bush's. The Bush presidency has a lot of big ideas, which is generally good thing, but there just is not a lot of legislative follow-through.

There is a great deal of urgency about this. I think it is the most important thing on the agenda in Iraq, which is to respond to the efforts of the terrorists to divide by terrorism by uniting through democracy.

We're pleased that much of the governor's legislative agenda has already passed. We'll be keeping an eye on the budget process, of course, and the governor's eminent domain legislation.

What I said I'd do is bring a common-sense approach to government, I'd have no hidden agendas and I'd use my business leadership skills.