Quotes About Progress

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

Being part of the E.U. in Poland means that for the first time in a millennium, nobody disputes Poland's borders, and it brought a level of freedom that Poland has never known before.

I dream of Poland becoming a modern society that is defined not by the crippling nature of history, but by our individual achievements, a sense of our own self-worth and ideas for the future.

The 1960s were a time of cultural revolution in Poland. And I was a part of that revolution. For me, those years - the late 1950s and early 1960s - were the most fruitful.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver.

Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.

There is nothing better than just policies that say, 'Come on: grow your jobs here.'

We can't double down on the failed energy policies of the past.

Family-supportive policies, which enable women to remain and progress in paid employment and encourage men to take their fair share of care work, are crucial to achieving gender equality at work.

Malaysia has got all the things in place to continue growth: the policies are there; the mechanisms are there. So, I think even when I am not around, Malaysia can do with other people who are converse with our policies.

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class and upper-middle-class African Americans, creates the illusion of great progress.

I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.

American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.

Cinema has evolved, and it is high time we stop policing it so rigorously.

Looking back to when I joined, some areas of policing were barred for women. So you couldn't do full public order training, you couldn't carry a firearm as a woman in the Met until 1988, there were no women dog handlers, and there was probably one woman in CID.

Policy change is nothing if it's not patient work.

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.