Quotes About Progress

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

There's a huge difference in the attitude of the people of the United States of America toward women in politics. It has taken an enormous turn toward equality.

I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.