Charles de Gaulle Quotes

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

You have to adapt your policies to changing circumstances.

We stand today at the edge of a new frontier—the frontier of the 1960's.

Changing course implies an admission that the previous course was incorrect, and no administration likes to do that.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war.

A week is a long time in politics.

Saying one is adopting one's policies to changing circumstances is a nice way of saying "I lied.

Stasis ... is the norm in American social policy, and innovations ... are the exceptions.

It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo.

President Bush blames the LA riots on the 60's. Which 60's is he talking about the 1960s or the 1860s when Lincoln freed the slaves?

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.