Top 1200 Political Agenda Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

You're not failed parents because you didn't meet every agenda on your child's schedule.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.

It's always comedy first on 'Will and Grace.' There was never any other agenda.

When it comes to the liberal agenda, it's more important to pigeonhole people than it is to speak the truth.

Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.

We need to combat Trump's agenda to make sure he can't divide our families.

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

The question is, how do you stop the power elite from doing as much damage to you as possible? That comes through movements. It's not our job to take power. You could argue that the most powerful political figure in April of 1968 was Martin Luther King. And we know Johnson was terrified of him. We have to accept that all of the true correctives to American democracy came through these movements that never achieved formal political power and yet frightened the political establishment enough to respond.

I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long as these are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals and ethics of the race; just as religion cannot be amalgamated with the scheming of political parties.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.

There is one great truth in western politics that I have been able to see, and that is this: The more left wing your political ideals are, the more naive a person you are likely to be. The more right wing your political ideals are, the more evil a person you are likely to be. Choosing a political standpoint is largely a matter of deciding which failure as a human you are more comfortable with.

Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better.

As a political party, the Libertarians have always been more party than political.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.

Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are the United States and a number of third world military dictatorships.

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.

Growing up in Egypt, I never saw the country as divided as it is today. We now have two main political groupings: the Islamist parties and the civil, or liberal, political parties.

You need to give yourself the time to think freely. I don't know if that is political. But sometimes things are political because you observe things that are right or that are wrong and you want to speak on them.

Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated with a photo of one of the 10 politicians whose picture must be attached to every news story.

Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

I think [Pope] Francis intends to forge ahead with his reform agenda.

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

You read some columnists in the newspapers; you have to wonder who they are really working for. You can see they have an agenda.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

If [Donald Trump] really has an agenda to help, let him move forward with it. We'll see.

Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.

My agenda will never change from making good music and staying relevant.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. Its a callous political game.

The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.

The world understands that our country could solve all conflicts with military solutions, but we won't because we have leaders and we have a moral responsibility but we have also have a political - we have a political leader who is scared and who is raised on the idea that American force is the true evil.

The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.

Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.

We also call upon the king to hand over power to the political parties and for the political parties to shoulder their responsibility and turn the people's demands for democracy and good governance into reality.

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

I don't want to be a 66-year-old man banging on youth, because that's not my agenda.

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Drinking isn't tops on my agenda. In fact, I hate champagne... and all white wines, for that matter.

If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda.

There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies

It is very important that the president thematically shows where we're going in terms of the vision and an agenda.

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

The central base of world political power is right here in America, and it is our corrupt political establishment that is the greatest power behind the efforts at radical globalization and the disenfranchisement of working people.