Quotes About Change

Do you know, I didn't play a policeman up until I was 40, and then suddenly that's what I have been asked to play.

I thought I could make change by just working at ground level, but to change a community, you have to change policies.

If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

The Obama Administration continues to talk about the 'policies of the past' and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster.

If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.

You're a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point of view. I have to make it clear that I don't live there anymore, and I don't approve of the brutal racial policies.

When you have the demand, you can change the government policies that create McDonald's and junk food.

I got kids that are growing up in a Donald Trump world because we screwed up because we haven't been able to craft a message and push policies that connect with working class people.

Democrats misinterpreted the mandate for change in 2008 as an ideological mandate to move the country sharply to the left. They rammed through policies like ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank with little, if any, bipartisan support.

We can't double down on the failed energy policies of the past.

The only way really to influence countries, in terms of poverty, is to get them to change their policies and get them to understand what the issues are.

When I was younger, I remember families like mine who had to deal with the disastrous policies of the 1970s.

When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.

I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.

We need to have something that is reworked, that deals with immigration, that is not thinking in terms of policing.

Cinema has evolved, and it is high time we stop policing it so rigorously.

Looking back to when I joined, some areas of policing were barred for women. So you couldn't do full public order training, you couldn't carry a firearm as a woman in the Met until 1988, there were no women dog handlers, and there was probably one woman in CID.

My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.