John F. Kennedy Quotes

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

History shows us that the youth are usually a step ahead of their elders when change is required.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God.

Italy will start the future. Because in the last 20, 20 years, Italy discussed only about the past. "Oh, the past is wonderful in Italy." Look, look Palazzo Vecchio. The most beautiful place in the world, in my opinion, I think this is incredible place. But the past is not sufficient. Is not enough. We need the future. Because we are Italians. And Italy is not only a museum.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.