Rick Larsen Quotes

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

With President Obama, we will move America forward.

I think it's time to rebuild America.

I would urge that we at home now move on to the unfinished task of building a new South. We must not forever by bound to another lost cause.

Making these changes is a matter of life and death for our country, and it will give our people a chance to lead a better life.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.

The great society.

The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control.

The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve.

I was the father of Canada's social revolution; you will create the country's economic revolution.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

The reformer does not want to move left; he wants to move forward.

Edinburgh, Scotland went from a narrow, theocratic, awful society to the intellectuality and free thinking Great Enlightenment in only 100 years.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

The time for bickering is over. The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action ... I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are. If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out. And I will not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now.

The use of power to bring about radical social and political change in the 1860s carries important implications for the use of federal power to bring about change in matters of race, citizenship, and social welfare today. So long as this remains true—and there us no sign that these issues will go away any time soon.

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

This is not a Budget, but a revolution; a social and political revolution of the first magnitude.

Change America—Change the World

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.