Quotes about Impact

Three months is a lifetime in politics.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Christians are not particularly gifted at knowing how we sound to others, especially in parts of the world where our voices are the loudest and most numerous.

In a single sentence, Gandhi has given me a new way to live with the verse at the end of Matthew's Gospel, which Christians sometimes call the Great Commission. The way to make a disciple is to be one. If your life does not speak, your footnotes will have limited impact. Become worthy of the message, and join the spinning brigade. Why isn't that the Great Commission?

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

The most incredible part of seeing people embrace and recognize my music is experiencing the lives of people when they are powerfully affected, encouraged, and personally impacted.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

Sometimes words are harder than blows.