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Quotes About Change

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.
~ Bill Drayton
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
~ Margaret Mead
Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
~ Marco Rubio
We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.
~ Jeb Bush
The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.
~ Steven F. Hayward
We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.
~ John Kasich
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
~ William Hague
Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.
~ Richard N. Haass
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.
~ George Washington
If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.
~ Ishmael
The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.
~ Newt Gingrich
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
~ Abraham Lincoln
When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
~ Lawrence Lessig
Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?
~ Harry Browne
For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.
~ Janusz Korwin-Mikke
If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything...we all need to collectively devote to make our country move forward.
~ Narendra Modi
They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime
~ Connie Mulder
I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.
~ Todd Park
The reform of government needs to continue.
~ Jim Nussle
Right now there's kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.
~ John McCain
When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.
~ Larry R. Thompson
In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
~ Thomas Jefferson