Quotes About Status Quo

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

In terms of intellectual property, so many of the job creators I know are start-ups. In the IP setting, we can meaningfully improve on the status quo, and in so doing, we can help small businesses, large businesses, and those in between.

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

We don't have to accept an economy that doesn't work just because some people have got rich in the status quo. That is not democracy.

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.

It's interesting that we assign the label 'political' to art that doesn't just fit a mould of status quo. Is 'Downton Abbey' not political? That's political! Every piece of art offers a perspective on the world. And what is politics if not a perspective on the world? 'Downton Abbey' is about class. It's also about race.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN.

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.