Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

Zac Goldsmith

By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

David Kay

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.

Chris Crutcher

I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.

Neil Patrick Harris

I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example.

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

The announcement of constituent assembly elections will be the main agenda item for the reinstated parliament.

The assemblies are more enjoyable now. The agendas are well-planned, there is thought about what they are going to do. We've seen a big turnaround, we're very pleased.

That will definitely, I think, figure on the agenda of our discussions in both India and Pakistan. But it will by no means overshadow the other very, very important bilateral issues that we have with each one separately,

That will be right at the top of the agenda for our delegation.

Dennis Hastert

We have an agenda that we want to move through,

Sebastian Coe

We have worked through a comprehensive agenda in a spirit of partnership and cooperation. We could not have started on a better footing.

Kofi Annan

We have a lot of issues on the agenda to discuss and I'm looking forward to the meeting. We will of course discuss the Iranian issue, the situation in Iraq, the Middle East... I would not be surprised if the issue of the cartoons comes up.

Manmohan Singh

We reviewed the status of our cooperation including the agenda that was set on July 18, 2005.

Usually the agenda (of Indo-Pak Home Secretary-level talks) is terrorism and drug trafficking but this time we have requested that we would like to discuss the issue of prisoners held in both the countries,

Paul Parker

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

Peter Schiff

The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's not true.

Most betting people wouldn't have thought we'd win this series. From Day 1, we've preached 'team' and that's very hard to do in professional sports because a lot of them have agendas -- to get out of here and to the NBA.

Jodi Kantor

Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.

Lucy Powell

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.

will push to the back burner some issues that otherwise would have been on the agenda now -- the estate tax, tax cut permanence and other things.

Roma Maffia

Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'

Brian Williams

I think it will dominate our news agenda for the foreseeable future.

I think it would be bad form to do that. I'm sure he has his agenda and I'm sure he'll stick to that.

Janice Hahn

I thought it wouldn't hurt to have somebody else's advice, ... The only agenda I have is catching Reggie and I thought this was an opportunity to give this evacuee something to do.

I think they're just picking on Rachael because they don't want people to know they don't have an agenda and if they do it's hidden.

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.

I think people should be able to contribute as long as it's local. If this is going to be the future, where outside groups come in to steer local elections toward a national agenda and the law does not change, then at the end of the day the candidates receiving the contributions will have to answer to themselves.

Roy Blunt

When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.

While a Koizumi win was priced in, such a decisive victory ... is more than most were expecting. Koizumi will now be able to push his reform agenda with a much freer hand.