Quotes About Progress

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

Some people wait to get flowers while others grow gardens.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

My life needs editing.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.