Top 1200 Political Agenda Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

In truth, the legacy that President Obama's agenda will leave on history is the poisoning of the tree of liberty.

Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.

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.

I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political machines in a lot of large cities, and everywhere the goals of society get lost.

Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.

I think the American people pretty well understand that radical Islam has an agenda that includes us.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

Yes, the Obama administration has and will continue to use Hollywood and the entertainment industry to push its agenda.

My district really wanted me... to take a hard stance against a Donald Trump agenda.

One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.

Would I sacrifice a friendship to take a step forward in my political career? Thus far in my political career, I have been spared from having to make such a decision, thank God. And I can't imagine what it must be like.

Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.

The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda.

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

Hillary Clinton, an agent for the Oligarchy, was defeated despite the vicious media campaign against Donald Trump. This shows that the media and the political establishments of the political parties no longer have credibility with the American people.

The D.C. playbook is obsolete. It's time for the people of California to bring the agenda to Washington, not the other way around.

In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.

One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.

Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories.

The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it...Their agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton.

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest…

Hillary Clinton is the one you would think would have some kind of political conscience - the good Methodist, the feminist, the crusader against political corruption. But apparently, she doesn't. For her, it's all about entitlement and power.

All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.

Now, the political class tries to make sense of all of this, but they can't, because never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

I studied political science, and when I fell into acting in college - it was just a total fluke that I became an actor. I ended up changing my degree and went for a double major and missed political science by two classes.

I don't have a personal agenda. My priority is expeditious implementation of my party's manifesto, the Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra.

Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'

What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies.

My focus is on issues where I can make a difference to stop the liberal agenda being pushed by President Obama.

I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of "anarchism" (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

I have no agenda. I'll play anywhere. All I need is a reason to believe that it's a good place for me and that I'm wanted, and I'm coming.

Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

There is no room any more for the divisive agenda which has been sought to be foisted on the common man.

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual, and they've been harmed; their family's been harmed. But the state itself, you can't be extradited for harming it.

I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River.'

My pick for Best Political Move of the Year, which is the decisive (ph) and this means it is actually the best political movement is Bill Clinton getting on the phone and encouraging Donald Trump to run for the president.

To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.

The higher the stakes, the more responsible we have to be. It was with this in mind that I began to build my Green Economy and Climate Agenda.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

The Night Manager doesn't exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don't have particularly political or national-political affiliations.

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

Each person enters the world "called," like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.

It [9/11] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which refused to have any interest in dialogue and political organization and persuasion. This was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River'.

We will win the hearts and minds of the American people with an agenda for a stronger and more prosperous America.

Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.

The Tea Party movement's economic agenda is a matter of emphasis, not exclusion. This is not a single-issue group.