Famous Quotes & Sayings

While a Koizumi win was priced in, such a decisive victory ... is more than most were expecting. Koizumi will now be able to push his reform agenda with a much freer hand.

We don't want to meet just for the sake of meeting. We want a well-prepared meeting with an extensive agenda focusing on all the current issues.

John Shadegg

We got elected on an agenda of limited government, individual responsibility, a free-market economy, and a strong national defense. We need to demonstrate right now that that's what we're about, and we can get it done, ... Face the Nation.

John Ashcroft

Well, I think the record is clear on it, ... I said that I didn't believe it was the agenda of the administration to unsettle what was settled law, and that, as the attorney general, I would be pursuing the agenda of the administration.

We must pull together and work hard in ensuring that SADC succeeds in its agenda of development, economic cooperation and regional integration,

Kofi Annan

We have a lot of issues on the agenda to discuss and I'm looking forward to the meeting. We will of course discuss the Iranian issue, the situation in Iraq, the Middle East... I would not be surprised if the issue of the cartoons comes up.

Manmohan Singh

We reviewed the status of our cooperation including the agenda that was set on July 18, 2005.

Usually the agenda (of Indo-Pak Home Secretary-level talks) is terrorism and drug trafficking but this time we have requested that we would like to discuss the issue of prisoners held in both the countries,

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

The announcement of constituent assembly elections will be the main agenda item for the reinstated parliament.

I think people should be able to contribute as long as it's local. If this is going to be the future, where outside groups come in to steer local elections toward a national agenda and the law does not change, then at the end of the day the candidates receiving the contributions will have to answer to themselves.

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.

Roy Blunt

When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.

Make no mistake the status quo in Sacramento is corporate control and the governor's agenda is not only to maintain corporate control but increase the grip of corporate special interests.

Orrin Hatch

I have become convinced that, for conscientious and reasonable defenders of the Second Amendment, it is not enough to simply oppose the gun-control communities' legislative agenda which safeguards the right to keep and bear arms,

Roger Mahony

I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789.

Brian Mulroney

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

He says he is giving power to the people but the statement is influenced by his own agenda focusing on general elections. He has given hints that he is bending but actually he is not.

Mr. Blunt wholeheartedly agrees that we need to regain the trust of the American people before we can press ahead with our results-oriented agenda. The majority of his colleagues agree he is the right person for the job. He looks forward to enacting tough new reforms and moving forward with a positive agenda focused on limited government, economic opportunity and national security.

My interest is to establish an agenda of engagement with Mexicans that will respond to Mexicans' most urgent needs.

Nelson said today he'll do everything possible, including new specific legislation, to block Interior Secretary Gale Norton from carrying out the oil industry's agenda over the wishes of the people of Florida and many other coastal states.

None of us do this for the money. But, I've asked for this to be placed on the agenda because I think it's timely and it needs to be approved within the confines of the budget process.

Ted Kennedy

On issue after issue, they have moved brazenly to impose their agenda on America and on the world, ... They have pursued their goals at the expense of urgent national and human needs and at the expense of the truth. America deserves better.

Susan Faludi

One of the things I have found in reporting on this book is that men do not feel listened to, ... That's part of their anger towards feminism, they feel like everybody else's agenda is more important than theirs.

Everybody in the soccer community has jumped onboard. Regardless of our individual agendas at the youth clubs and the college level and beyond, everybody has kind of embraced it and it's united the soccer community.

Charles Schumer

If the president sends us a nominee who is committed to an agenda of turning back the clock on civil rights, workers' rights, individual autonomy or other vital constitutional protections, there will likely be a fight.

Condoleezza Rice

If there's a concern right now with the U.N., it is that we really do need a strong reform agenda on the key issues - management reform, secretariat reform.

Andrew Card

This should not be about just saying no to any agenda that the president puts forward. The president's agenda is really the American agenda. He campaigned on it, the people expect him to put it forward and he will,

We condemn the closure of a newspaper, which has only carried out its role of informing the public by dealing with a subject that is high on the news agenda around the world.

Richard Grasso

When Sandy and I discussed his potential service, he reminded me of his full agenda as CEO of Citigroup and the demands upon his time,

But our main agenda is really to try to integrate the study of Asia here at Harvard and to play as positive a role as we can in this institution.

Both our nations and both our people were innocent victims. They were victims of those whose real agenda is hatred and destruction.

The governor's agenda has always been one of smaller government, less spending, more choices for parents and government restructuring. The fact that the House shares that agenda with the governor in the coming year is welcome.