Norm Coleman Quotes

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Change will always be violent.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

Only force would produce social change.

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

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Don't be content with things as they are.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

No great reform can be achieved except at the sacrifice of some opinion.