Quotes About Change

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

Democracy is the best revenge.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

My life needs editing.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Politics is downstream from culture.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.