Quotes About Progress

By creating a feedback culture within your office, you ensure that people continue to learn, grow, and challenge themselves.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

Theoretically, every probationary officer has a chance to become chairman.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

As we officially make Juneteenth a federal holiday, we continue our fight for true liberation.

If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years.

People want our elected officials to govern and for government to work.

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.

Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.

When girls can get an education and women can work and run businesses or even serve as elected officials, the world benefits.

Good is often the enemy of best.

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.

I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

'2001' is a really interesting movie because it came out in 1968, and everybody thought that that was possible, and look how ridiculous that was. We don't have ships like that, and you know, nobody in 1968 was going, 'Oh, that'll never happen!' But of course it never happened. We're not even close to it.

Oh, I like to take classes every chance that I get. If I'm not working after about four or five months, I'll jump back into a class.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

I don't look at 'Deadpool' and think, 'Oh, that's a perfect movie.' I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, there's so much stuff I could do better.'

When I was 25, if you'd have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, 'Oh, my God. That's a huge step down.'

What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn't extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, 'Oh my God, I can't walk in that!' It was like, three inches - they look like kitten heels now.

I'm just getting my sea legs. The first time you make them laugh, you're like, 'Oh my God - that just happened.' Then you're like, 'I made them laugh. I've earned this.'