To someone like me, who has watched trade negotiations closely for more than a quarter-century, it is clear that U.S. trade negotiators got most of what they wanted. The problem was with what they wanted. Their agenda was set, behind closed doors, by corporations.
The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-’80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club – or whatever the music was at that time – would not have been on my agenda.
I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that’s one of the things that he’s going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.
Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There’s always a hidden agenda.
There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue – at least from a biblical perspective. Reject it or embrace it: that’s the easy choice that makes for great sound-bites but ruins lives.
An agenda is not a bad thing.
I’ve learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn’t the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.
I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
If Paul Ryan is re-elected, if he’s sent back to Congress, he will push for the biggest amnesty in this country’s history; and immediately after his re-election, he will push Obama’s jailbreak crime agenda.
For me, being a public persona, I was always wondering, ‘Was a man dating me for who I was? Was there an agenda? Did he want to be seen with me? Am I arm candy?’
Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.
This is the real tragedy of America’s ‘Internet freedom agenda’: It’s going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.
My only agenda is, I would like to see mainstream America more empowered to set an agenda.
Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.
So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.
People always try to find my agenda, but I don’t really have one. It’s safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I’m doing important music, too. I’ve just always done what I wanted to do.
Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.
The idea that someone, somewhere will campaign in a positive, uplifting way on an agenda that can inspire Americans? I’m sadly done holding my breath.
President Obama has not only failed to uphold several of our nation’s laws, he has vowed to continue to do so in order to enact his unpopular agenda.
I don’t believe revenge is part of my agenda. I’m a firm believer that, just like hate spreads hate, love and kindness spread love and kindness.
In Barack Obama’s second term, with his legislative agenda dead in a Republican-controlled Congress, the president turned to executive unilateralism on an innovative scale.
I have no social agenda with my work. I’m deadpan about it.
I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you’re bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can’t incorporate style. But there’s no reason why style and conscience can’t co-exist.
It’s about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.
The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.
It’s not their job from the establishment-through-calcification to sit there and try to withhold the president, to rein him in or slow down his agenda.
We’re a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.
When Sir Michael Peat arrived from Buckingham Palace in 2002 to take up the job as Prince Charles’s private secretary, he came with a clear agenda. His instructions from the Queen were to sever Charles’s relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles because it was a mess and was detracting from his work.
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century… This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
That was part of David Duke’s agenda, is to turn the Klan from a racist organization in the eyes of the public into something that is respectable and acceptable.
Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.
Supporting and investing in local economic projects has always been a significant part of my agenda.
When I’m governor, we’re not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump’s destructive and bigoted agenda.
One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.
The ‘freedom agenda’ of George W. Bush’s second inaugural was a noble concept – but in practice, it offered ignoble results.
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.
Having a house with seven-and-a-half acres of land and a swimming pool wasn’t really on my agenda when in my old job and while I haven’t spent too much money on cars or any other expensive gadgets, I did treat myself to a JCB digger.
When it comes to the liberal agenda, it’s more important to pigeonhole people than it is to speak the truth.
Hispanics’ support for the Democratic economic agenda, both in California and nationally, stems in part from their receipt of government assistance.
If the anti-Christian agenda will say, ‘Here’s your identity, you’re an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don’t let anybody tell you different,’ then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.
The string of disqualification cases were filed against me when I was still contemplating a run for the presidency by people whose motives were suspect at best. Powerful groups with personal agenda are behind these cases. But I am not afraid. Not when the people are behind me.
Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We’ve got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.
