Ted Kennedy Quotes

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

One problem with Washington is that we are all historians and not futurists.

We are here today, not so much as to launch a political party but more so and more importantly we are here today to project a vision that will inspire hope.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Italy will start the future. Because in the last 20, 20 years, Italy discussed only about the past. "Oh, the past is wonderful in Italy." Look, look Palazzo Vecchio. The most beautiful place in the world, in my opinion, I think this is incredible place. But the past is not sufficient. Is not enough. We need the future. Because we are Italians. And Italy is not only a museum.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

I know that liberalism isn't dead in this country.... It simply has, temporarily we hope, lost its voice.

The ancient liberal faith ... that our course be governed not by the dead hand of yesterday's facts and prejudices but by the living realities of today and our aspiration for tomorrow. It is this genius for making change serve the eternal unchanging values we cherish that is the very essence of American liberalism.

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.

We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.

Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and by changing our nation's future.

The electorate is bored of talking about the past. They are much more interested in the future.