Quotes about Change

If people can learn to hate they can learn to love.

We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or time. We are the ones we've been waiting for change we seek.

It was hard to tell how lasting these trends would be. I told myself it was the nature of democracies—including America's—to swing between periods of progressive change and conservative retrenchment.

It's like moving-in day on a college campus, except a large percentage of the people involved are middle-aged, in suits, and, along with you, charged with running the most powerful nation on earth.

Voting is the best revenge.

Justifying the past mattered less than planning what to do next.

The thing about getting old, Bar," Toot had told me, "is that you're the same person inside." I remember her eyes studying me through her thick bifocals, as if to make sure I was paying attention. "You're trapped in this doggone contraption that starts falling apart. But it's still you. You understand?

Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?

If I aspired to lead the free world, I decided, I'd have to make climate change a priority of my campaign and my presidency.

History travels not only forwards; history can travel backwards, history can travel sideways.

Despite all that, they'd given me a chance. Through the noise and chatter of the political circus, they'd heard my call for something different. Even if I hadn't always been at my best, they'd divined what was best in me: the voice insisting that for all our differences, we remained bound as one people, and that, together, men and women of goodwill could find a way to a better future.