Quotes About Change

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. 5

There is no loss without pain. Yet there is no change without loss.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

I do not want to stay in Washington.

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.

Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth.

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.

In the early 1970s in Washington, a small group of young conservative activists came together to try and change American politics. They called themselves the New Right, and they were convinced that unless they did something drastic, the liberals and the left-wingers in America were going to take over the country.

Like Marco Rubio in 2010, I'm not going to back down from the Washington establishment. They are the problem, not the solution.

During the six years I spent writing my novel 'The Incarnations,' I lived in seven cities in four countries. I moved in and out of 17 different houses and flats in Beijing, Seoul, Colorado, Boston, Leeds, Washington D.C., London and Shenzhen.

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

If we don't send people to Washington who, first of all, have done something more than talk for a living - which is what many politicians have done - nothing gets done.