Quotes About Transition

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Everyone has been to school. Everyone has a sense of classroom dynamics and politics, regardless of subject matter. And if you've lived long enough, everyone hits a big life transition.

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

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.

As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over 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.