Jack Layton Quotes

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

I've been building slow, step by step.

In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was happening in South Africa and Namibia.

True progress is slow but sure.

There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.

What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.

That which comes slow comes solid.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

After eight years of [Barack Obama], look what happened in this election. Did the country flip again? No. I maintain it didn't flip in 2008-2009, and we were not a 60% radical leftist population like they tried to portray it as.

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.

As far as the media is concerned, they ought to hate me. Before I came along, they had a monopoly. Before I came along, nationally all there was, was the three networks, the big newspapers, and CNN. When I started in '88, that was it. And now look. That monopoly they had is gone. Now there is Fox News, from 1996. That was nine years after I started. You got all kinds of conservative talk radio out there now. And that's done nothing but grow. I have not lost a single listener because of all the other shows. We've grown the pie, so to speak.

Conservative presence in the media has not been reflected in elections. Well, maybe the midterm elections of 2010, 2014.

There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates have performed better than they have in years. For the moment, today, as you read this, the Democratic candidates are the jokes.

This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have the agricultural balance of most countries completely changed; you will have a dramatic increase in the number of severe, unmanageable weather events... And the good news is that we can now deal with this problem - and strengthen our economic growth, not weaken it.