Quotes About Progress

As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

I am extremely ecstatic about the presidency of Barack Obama. I think he is paving the way for young African-American men like myself. I have very high expectations for Obama, and I am extremely hopeful that he will bring great lasting change not just to America, but to the entire world.

So when they don't have certainty, they go the other way. In Ohio, we have given them certainty and things have been improved. But if we can get a Romney presidency, they are going to get much better.

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.

Soon, the Obama presidency will end, and America will have the chance to turn in a new direction.

I think it's really cool that someone could have ovaries and the presidency. Growing up, I thought I could never be president because I was black and female. Now I know that's wrong. Within my own lifetime - that's different. Within my lifetime, interracial couples are more common. Within my own lifetime, biracial folks are able to claim that.

It's very important that the issues that Bernie is talking about are carried forward and he is intending to do that. Winning the presidency is not enough.

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

We know what we need to do. Let's re-elect President Obama!

I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.

But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.

With President Obama, we will move America forward.

Together with President Obama, we are moving America forward, not back.

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.

No child should be left behind - I've heard this from President Obama. And here, we say in Latin America, no country should be left behind.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

President Obama helped move this country forward.