Quotes About Progress

If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.

Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition.

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

Federal government has been a gateway to the middle class for people of color for generations.

My parents climbed their way to the middle class.

What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.

We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.

In America, the middle class, the working class, have accepted for too long now, that they should accept less.

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

I think it's time that we had a dad of Middle Eastern descent on TV. The time is ripe for the Middle Eastern 'Cosby Show.' Or, as I like to call it, 'The Mazby Show.'

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them.

From Day 1 since I was in middle school, it's just to get better every day and not settle for anything, try to get better, try to improve, and try to stay hungry. That's not going to change.

The state of the industry is much like the state of politics. It's too middle-aged, white, and male.

Growing up I've been playing as an attacking midfielder, more central in the midfield. I wouldn't say if I'm most comfortable there but that's where I grew up playing.

I can't keep singing 'Midnight Hour' for the rest of life. I gotta change.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.