Political Agendas Quotes:

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

- Feisal Abdul Rauf

source: "Ground Zero mosque' imam sets the record straight on 'Hannity". "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2012.

topic: Organization, Political, Target, Civilians, Political Agendas

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

- Larry Flynt

topic: Party, Wings, Political, Political Agendas

If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as a threat to "tradition" - which of course it is to traditions of domination. These people had an integrated political agenda that recognizes that a "traditional" authoritarian, male dominated, punitive family is foundational to an authoritarian, male dominated, punitive politics. We can see this connection in sharp relief in brutal top-down regimes, be they secular like Nazi Germany or religious like ISIS in the Middle East.

- Riane Eisler

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Religious, Top Down, Rights, Political Agendas, Nazi Germany

We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.

- Riane Eisler

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Caring, Political, Foundation, Political Agendas

With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.

- Achim Steiner

topic: Issues, Political, Risk, Political Agendas, Flare Up

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

- Robert Stacy McCain

topic: Political, Agendas, Moral, Political Agendas

Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite.

- William E. Jenner

topic: Mean, Government, People, One World Government, World Order

Let's be clear on one thing, the corporate media in America is no longer involved in journalism. They're a political special interest no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda, and the agenda is not for you, it's for themselves.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: time.com

topic: Media, America, Political, Political Agendas

It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.

- Anne Rice

topic: Teaching, People, Support, Political Agendas

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

- Seth Gordon

source: Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.ifc.com. September 30, 2010.

topic: Thinking, Order, Data, Political Agendas

Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic!

- Joseph Bayly

topic: Abortion, Political, Agendas, Political Agendas

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.

- David Price

topic: Political, Agendas, Facts, Political Agendas, Intertwined

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.

- John Stossel

topic: Thinking, Errors, People, Impotence, Political Agendas

Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality.

- Jack Donovan

source: "Anrophilia: A Manifesto: Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity". Book by Jack Donovan, 2006.

topic: Philosophical, Gay, Rainbow, Subculture, Taste In Music

This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.

- Michele Bachmann

topic: Numbers, Political, President, Political Agendas

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

- Donald Worster

topic: Strong, Commitment, Simple, Scholarly, Political Agendas

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

- Ian Somerhalder

topic: Political, Agendas, Actors, Political Agendas

Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do.

- Lanford Wilson

topic: Christian, Struggle, Commitment, Political Agendas

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

- Bram Cohen

topic: Technology, Rights, Political, Intruders, Political Agendas

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

- Gary Ackerman

source: "Rep. Gary Ackerman Wants To Tread On Tea Party License Plates In Arizona" By Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

topic: Government, Political, Agendas, Political Agendas

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

- Peter Coyote

topic: Responsibility, Organization, Political, Political Agendas

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

- Stanley Fish

source: Stanley Fish (2015). “Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education”, p.360, Princeton University Press

topic: Ideas, Political, Agendas, Recruit, Political Agendas

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

- Andrew Cuomo

topic: Political, Confusing, Agendas, Political Agendas

We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

- Rick Perry

topic: Jobs, Hands, Political, Dodd Frank, Political Agendas

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Political, Nerd, Tragedy, Political Agendas

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.

- Queen Rania of Jordan

topic: People, Political, Doe, Political Agendas, Holy Scriptures

To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.

- Lee Kuan Yew

topic: Clever, Winning, Ideas, Wrong Ideas, Political Agendas

The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the [IPCC] assessment! There should be an outcry on this obvious conflict of interest, but to date either few recognize this conflict, or see that since the recommendations of the IPCC fit their policy and political agenda, they chose to ignore this conflict. In either case, scientific rigor has been sacrificed and poor policy and political decisions will inevitably follow.

- Roger A. Pielke

topic: Assessment, Decision, Political, Political Agendas, Political Decisions

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

- Richard Lindzen

source: "Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?". Richard Lindzen's remarks for Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arxiv.org. September 19, 2008.

topic: Issues, Goal, Political, Political Agendas

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

- Bennie Thompson

topic: Strong, Successful, Rights, Individual Rights, Supreme Court Justice

On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

- Rafik Hariri

topic: Israel, Hands, Government, Political Agendas

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

- Questlove

topic: Wise, Thinking, Political, Obama Campaign, Political Agendas

If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Political, Usual, Agendas, Political Agendas

It would be easy for this conflict to slip off the political agenda given how long it has been going on but for the sake of the people of Nepal for whom it is a daily tragic reality, the world must remain engaged and keep up the pressure on the government and the Maoists.

- Irene Khan

topic: Reality, Government, Long, Political Agendas, Nepal

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

- John F. Kerry

topic: Organization, Political, Agendas, Arafat, Political Agendas

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

topic: Party, Talking, America, Defending America, Political Agendas

Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.

- Bashar al-Assad

source: Source: www.globalresearch.ca

topic: Political, Agendas, Terrorism, Political Agendas

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

- Mac Thornberry

topic: Common Sense, Political, Balance, Political Agendas, Energy Production

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

- Donald Sutherland

topic: Lying, Ambition, Government, Political Agendas

The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

- Molly Antopol

topic: Book, Writing, Hard Times, Political Agendas

These acts of terrorism are being committed by American citizens in this particular instance at a Planned Parenthood site, certain with a political agenda, fueled by the extremist rhetoric that we`ve seen from some on the hill and from people all across the country as it relates to a woman`s right to choose.

- Hakeem Jeffries

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Country, People, Political, Planned Parenthood, Political Agendas

In trying to address the systemic problem of racial injustice, we would do well to look at abolitionism, because here is a movement of radicals who did manage to effect political change. Despite things that radical movements always face, differences and divisions, they were able to actually galvanize the movement and translate it into a political agenda.

- Manisha Sinha

topic: Differences, Political, Trying, Political Agendas, Political Change

Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary.

- Tariq Ramadan

source: Source: themuslimtimes.info

topic: Thinking, Political, Agendas, Political Agendas, Nevertheless

At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.

- Charlize Theron

source: "Charlize Theron and Paul Haggis on In the Valley of Elah". Press conference, movieweb.com. September 11, 2007.

topic: Moving, Who I Am, People, Political Agendas

In the months after George W. Bush's reelection, a lot of liberals and environmentalists were ready to take a hard look at their political agenda, the Democratic Party, and the interest groups they supported.

- Ted Nordhaus

topic: Party, Political, Groups, Political Agendas, Reelection

There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of community, the politics of social love.

- Peter Berg

source: Source: ew.com

topic: Talking, Community, Political, Patriot Day, Political Agendas

The manufacturing industry is starting to press for some kind of national healthcare. Now it's beginning to put it on the agenda. It doesn't matter if the population wants it. What 90% of the population wants would be kind of irrelevant. But if part of the concentration of corporate capital that basically runs the country - another thing we're not allowed to say but it's obvious - if part of that sector becomes in favor then the issue moves onto the political agenda.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Running, Country, Moving, Political Agendas

I'm not trying to push my political agenda on anybody. I'll do that like any other citizen by giving money to a party or candidate I believe in. I don't mind going out and endorsing somebody I believe in. But when we're talking about my films, I don't think my politics should have anything to do with it.

- Sydney Pollack

topic: Party, Believe, Thinking, Political Agendas, Giving Money

We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the United States to be cultural ambassadors in different parts of the world, like Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.

- Bocafloja

topic: Rap, Islamic, Artist, Political Agendas, Conscious Rap

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures.

- John Cornyn

source: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

topic: State Legislatures, Political Agendas