Cory Gardner Quotes

We just can’t be the party of NO. We have to be the party of solutions.

We've made it crystal clear to the American people what we're against. We need to talk about a couple of other things - what are we for?

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

The Secretary of State has always stood as much alone as the historian. Required to look far ahead and around him, he measures forces unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile since Congress first sat.

No government of which I am a member will ever be a government of reaction.

We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'

I think we speak to a certain mindset, and it's about, you know, inspiring people who are progressive thinkers who want to see change.

Good policies need to come with good visions.

I've always said the left needs to be ready for government.

I'd rather frame [Clintons] in terms of what I think we need to do going forward.

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

A visionary leadership is required to harness rapid technological change for positive benefit rather than allowing to become disruptive and further exacerbate economic inequality.

I look at life through product, and my goal is to impact people and make their lives better.

White House staff are meant to coordinate and set policy, not carry it out.

Good romantic suspense can never underestimate the audience, and the best political leaders know how to shape a compelling narrative that respects voters and paints a picture of what is to come.

You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet.

The Obama administration was not in a position where they were seeking legislation. I don't know yet how President Trump intends to approach this. I know he spoke about it during the campaign. I know he cares about it, but it's premature for me to say.

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord.

President tends to feel that he cannot go beyond what the public will support him in doing. So he tries not to decide what is the best course so much as to decide what the people will support.