Vicente Fox Quotes

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.

I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.

We think, fundamentally, that the future story of Latin America, not only of Mexico but for all of Latin America, will be constructed from the bottom - that the rest of what's happening, in any case, are steps.

I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.

If we don't heal our own hood, who will?

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.

I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Social change comes through people.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

Let's pass the small business credit enhancement bill so small business can get back on its feet.