Famous Quotes & Sayings

You still try to be open, you try to answer these things, but there are some that clearly have an agenda and may not even fully realize it themselves.

There are differences in personalities, in the city agendas and goals, but the IT systems are what stand out as the common thread." ()

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

J. C. Watts

We hope we go back with them being educated about what the agenda is and willing to mobilize, ... Our objective is to get people to help us help them.

Dr. Martin Luther King, his whole agenda was good works, and in the labor world we all have the day off. So instead of sitting at home, watching television, we decided to come out and do some good throughout the community. And this is the result of it, this is our seventh annual clothing and food drive.

You can't drive your own agenda, ... Customers drive your agenda for you. Customers cannot be disrupted, period. Oracle is a professional, ethical, large company. They're not going to disrupt any of our customers.

We wanted to see if it generated any interest at all. So the next one is where we will have a real full agenda of different participants in transportation. The people we want to attract are the people interested in hearing from the providers of transportation and the users, and we expect a real interactive give and take session there.

Mitch McConnell

Tonight he demonstrated he is still leading America, as he laid out a bold agenda to move our nation forward." ()

Ralph Goodale

The opposition will do whatever the opposition does but this government is standing not only on its record, but its agenda on its future, and I am more than happy to take that agenda to Canadians if necessary,

There is no reason for me to go away, because I am the only candidate who is speaking about (women's rights), about gay rights, about racism and discrimination, and this agenda that I am putting on the table is very important for Mexico.

Giovanni Bisignani

We will only see profitability in 2007 when we expect a return of US$6.2 billion. This is a net profit margin of 1.5%, not even enough to cover the cost of capital and nowhere near recovering the billions lost since 2001. A long and difficult agenda for change involving all partners is still ahead of us.

We have a different agenda this year, and it's not harping on negatives. That starts with the skipper.

Mike Quigley

As the largest contributor to the United Nations and funder of international family planning, the U.S. is in a unique position to continue to lead the global agenda and place reproductive health at its core.

There's no agenda that's been agreed on, and there's no meeting that's going to be held.

What (British Air) has said is their agenda mustn't (be altered), ... British Airways has to get out of this entrenched position that says, 'This is the only way we see this being achieved.'

What they have a penchant for is not only saying no, but if you keep moving this agenda forward, we're going to crush you.

We just sit and drink coffee. There's no (written) agenda and we just come and go as our schedule allows us.

The public officials drafting these (zoning codes) have extreme conflicts of interest. Yet they are allowed to drive and perpetuate an agenda that is mean-spirited and not in the public interest.

Maxine Waters

The public is saying get this thing over so we can focus on America's agenda for progress,

Phil Gramm

We want to be sure that a new president with a new agenda has an opportunity to get it voted on,

The fact that this was the only significant veto left untouched yesterday shows the success of New York's energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. We're hopeful that we've now closed the chapter on this debate and that we can move forward with the legislature and the Governor on an ambitious agenda to build and strengthen clean energy efforts in New York.

Martin O'Malley

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

Tom Daschle

The president had a very aggressive agenda in the first two years, an agenda that required much more unity than we were able to achieve.

The president and the Republican Congress really need to come up with a positive agenda of two or three bread-and-butter issues that all people, or most people, can get behind.

Jakaya Kikwete

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I'm not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programmes, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues.

Wellness programs have been part of the governor's health care agenda since he was elected. Hospital report cards have been high on the governor's agenda, and the idea of recruiting health care professionals is something he supports.

Mark Regev

Unfortunately this appears to be another example of the hijacking of the agenda of a professional body of the U.N..

Richard Thompson

Lenders now feel the agenda has changed, with inquiries looking at virtually every source of income. Some aspect of these inquiries appears to be based upon an assumption of excess profitability. This seems dubious when you look at the numbers.

Wu Bangguo

Last year, the NPC Standing Committee set the issues relating to resources and environment on top agenda on its supervision work. The legislature assigned a group to examine the law enforcement on water pollution prevention and control, and heard and discussed the report on current energy security situation made by the State Council.

Gordon Taylor

Many of these operators will say they're just concerned about the seriously or terminally ill, but their true agenda is to line their pockets with drug money.

Chris Duhon

Scott mentioned something to me about it. It's a valid point. There are times when the coaches kind of seem like they're always on the players and players just stop responding just because they feel as if they can do nothing right. It kind of messes with your head a bit. So when you hear it from the guys -- that our agenda is to win and we're trying to help each other and be there for each other -- it relaxes you a little bit.

Sean has earned the support of both the Pride Agenda and Victory Fund because he is what we are constantly searching for from our communitya quality candidate, well versed in public service.

So far, this campaign has been very one-sided; the only thing the people have heard about the governor's reform agenda is what they heard from union bosses. Now, they will hear from the governor and learn why he believes these reforms are critical.