Daniel Pfeiffer Quotes

I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

Reform is not a period of retreat.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

We have embraced change - change in the economy, change in the government, and change in the schools…. innovation and change are in our blood

Things don’t always get better. Sometimes they get worse. The only way things will get better if people make them better.

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

Philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

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.

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

We must not continue to dwell in the past and we must resolve to do the right and march along with the rest of the world.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

What makes Progressives is their confidence in Progress.

Anyone who thinks they're a progressive should be interested in making progress.

To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.

If we can just focus our attention where it matters, we can effect change.

Words have consequences and SAG-AFTRA members deserve leadership that is interested in the path forward, not a return to the divisiveness of the past. I am proud to provide that leadership.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

Policy is the way you can change the world.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.