Quotes About Change

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.