Matteo Renzi Quotes

I think the best way that we can bring people together is through change in Washington, D.C.

I'm trying to change the world.

When I grow up I’m going to change the government.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

I think people are really talking about it. Having conversations about how to make change.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.

I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.

Young people are tremendously frustrated because they don't see politics as changing anything. They see it as perpetuating a system that frankly doesn't work and no matter who you vote for things don't really change. Social media is where I think a bold message will wake them up. We saw that a little bit in the Occupy movement. Over the next three years, I think young people are going to wake up and be empowered.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

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

I wanted to use sports for social change.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

All I want to do is change the world.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

Every major social movement in our history was fueled in large part by religion and faith. Abolitionism, women’s suffrage, child labor law, and most famously, civil rights.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

I want to be known as a catalyst for change.