A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.
President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.
I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are.
So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.
Since acquiring major interests in Dole Food Company 28 years ago, educating the public on proper diet has constituted the agenda of the Dole Nutrition Institute.
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.
The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
Questions asked out of agenda threaten Questions asked out of authentic,loving inquiry unlock and liberate Choose. CoachmeDave
True friends are very transparent to each other, they don't have hidden agenda and they are not envious of each other's achievements.
If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.
I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.
The Democrats have invested a lot of time in telling struggling Americans that Republicans or anyone who doesn't agree with their agenda doesn't care about people who are struggling.
I'm a documentary image maker, still and moving, because keeping the real world on the agenda is really important at a time when we're increasingly disconnected from parts of the world on whom we depend.
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.
I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.
If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.
