Top 1200 Political Agendas Quotes & Sayings

Twenty-fourteen is all about growth musically and new agendas.

We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.

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.

Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of the earth system, have come to be identified with man's activities - engendering fear as well as an agenda for societal reform and control... This greatly facilitates any conscious effort to politicize science via influence in such bodies where a handful of individuals (often not even scientists) speak on behalf of organizations that include thousands of scientists, and even enforce specific scientific positions and agendas.

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."

Comedy illuminates. And it unifies people, it's not as polarizing as shows with specific political agendas.

Parents are the perfect people to talk to. They have no hidden agendas.

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.

Responsible employers who pursue bold growth agendas must embrace intelligent technologies.

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round

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.

Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.

'Chip Away' is somewhat of a rail against cable news and divisive agendas... all for the almighty dollar.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that they want to sell to the American public in the most appealing way possible. They often find the best way to do that is to package their product with the Reagan brand.

Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests.

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.

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.

The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, "political philosophy" means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life.

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

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.

Sometimes our awards process can be very political in terms of just driving personal agendas, and I think we forget.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas.

Don't let evil agendas turn us against each other.

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?

The precariat is today's mass class, which is both dangerous, in rejecting old political party agendas, and transformative, in wanting to become strong enough to be able to abolish itself, to abolish the conditions of insecurity and inequality that define it.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

It's impossible to remove agendas.

For me, what is political is very personal. Politics are not this abstract idea. Laws are the rules that dictate how we live our lives. What we eat is political. How we dress is political. Where we live is political. All of these things are influenced by political decision-making, and it's important to be part of the process.

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system for other people's agendas.

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.

Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.

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.

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

When I was put up as a candidate for this, I was a political person. But after becoming the president, I become non-political, a-political, because president does not then belong to any political party.

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community.

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.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.

Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that some writers have an appetite or a need for the political, for political discourse, for historical political subjects.

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

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?

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.

A lot of times, I think broadcast commentators can get bogged down with stats and personal agendas.

In my opinion, those politicians are making decisions based on calculations related to polling numbers and strategic political agendas. But if they are to talk about refugees in a human way - far from how this would affect their careers or individual comforts - and if they, for a second, look at a mother, sitting on a road somewhere, holding her children, shivering with cold, and crying because they are hungry, I'm sure there is a part of their humanity that would shiver.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.