There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.
It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.
Comedy illuminates. And it unifies people, it's not as polarizing as shows with specific political agendas.
The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment.
We are screaming battle cries against those whose political and personal agendas threaten our lives and sanity.
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
Sometimes our awards process can be very political in terms of just driving personal agendas, and I think we forget.
Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.
Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.
Senator Michael Bennet and members of the permanent political class have empowered President Obama's policies and their own agendas rather than the needs of constituents.
Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.
We often say that someone has exceptional political or social savvy, but what specific cognitive skills allow these people to handle interpersonal situations so effectively? Typically, socially skilled people are exceptional at recognizing underlying agendas, anticipating the probable effects and likely unintended consequences of a chosen course of action. These specific capabilities determine one's "people smarts."