Quotes About Progress

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

Revolutions never go backward.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.