Diana DeGette Quotes

Crisis creates opportunity.

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

Desperation sometimes drives innovation.

We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

Part of America is we've always had people that can get things done.

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

Problems are good. Impossible problems are even better.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way to do it.

Madame, if it is possible, it has already been done; if impossible, it will be done.

No crisis has proved too great for American ability, ingenuity, and courage.

We shall either find a way or make one.

Every step forward in this nation has been directly due to or is closely allied with that wonderful faculty for delving into untried fields particular to Americans.

Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.

Adversity is the mother of enterprise.

We go through periods of turmoil in our nation's history, and one of the remarkable things about the United States is that we seem to keep making our way through those periods.

One day, my bike tire broke miles from home and I found a way to fix it. That's what I learned: Even if you don't have all the tools, you can improvise.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

When in doubt, figure it out. That's the redneck way.