Quotes About Change

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.

Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians accountable, we contribute to harm.

Politicians are the same everywhere.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.

I think Barack Obama is one of the most exciting politicians to come along in a long time.

Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons.

We can do better, and we must hold the politicians accountable to do better.

A lot of folks feel like my brother and me or other politicians chart out their careers from Day 1 until the end. I've never been like that.

The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.

These new young politicians have given us the confidence to start dreaming again to believe there is a better politics, and a better future for Italy in general.

If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy.

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.