Quotes About Opportunity

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Three months is a lifetime in politics.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.