Quotes About Change

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

Revolutions are not made for export.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.

Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.

Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.