Eric Swalwell Quotes

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.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

If you want change, you have to offer change.

It is much better to reform than to destroy.

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

Reform is a verb …. The process of Reform is an ongoing, dynamic one, not a static process that has reformed and is finished becoming.

Reform that you may preserve.

I am a friend to the reformation generally of whatever can be made better

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

Reform can only move forward. It cannot stagnate. Even more so, it can’t move backward.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

We need new leaders, period.

Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.