Olivier Duhamel Quotes

A constitution … is good for a certain people and for a certain time. It shouldn’t be mummified.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Constitutional reform is exasperatingly slow.

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

The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the State instead of assembling armies will be worth as much to the world as the former examples we had given them

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

We've got to be innovative. We've got to think about what's coming next.

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

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

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

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

You can never plan the future by the past.

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

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.