Quotes About Progress

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

Fine Gael is the party of opportunity, and no matter what background you come from, we give people a chance, and it gave me a chance.

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

I need to keep improving tactically, defensively and offensively for the last pass, the last shot.

I try to work on all aspects of my game, whether it be run, pass. I think you can never stop growing, and I definitely take that mindset. You've just got to keep on grinding.

I was always ranked last in my class. My problem was that I would obtain a just pass and move on to the next class!

It may take a generation to achieve democracy. But our generation must accomplish this and not pass the buck to the next.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach a consensus - not perfect, by any means - but something that we can be proud of, nonetheless.

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

At some point, the time will have passed when individuals are capable of major discoveries.

Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.

I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now know.

The time of Milosevic has long passed.

White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.