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Quotes About Change

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
~ Quentin Crisp
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
~ Michael Foot
Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
~ Robert Teeter
What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.
~ R. K. Laxman
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
~ George Lakoff
I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
~ Rahul Gandhi
Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.
~ Mariane Pearl
Since politics — until recently — has been a man's world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.
~ Bertha Knight Landes
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
~ Tony Kushner
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
~ Mark Twain
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.
~ David Hume
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
~ Vaclav Havel
History is past politics, and politics is present history.
~ Edward Augustus Freeman
Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.
~ Enrique Iglesias
Politics is not about justice, but about solutions.
~ Khem Veasna
I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics.
~ Justin Trudeau
Climate action is central for the future of our planet.
~ Jose Manuel Barroso
There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
~ Tony Abbott
In politics a week is a very long time.
~ Harold Wilson
In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.
~ Giulio Andreotti
I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others
~ Drew Brees
Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.
~ Thomas Friedman
Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.
~ Eliot Spitzer