Quotes About Change

Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Revolutions never go backward.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Politics is social work with power.

Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.