Ricardo Lagos Quotes

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

Football, like no other sport, creates a sense of unity, equality, and inclusion. All of these are at the heart of my vision for a changing Gabon.

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

I want to make America better!

I'm ready for a different America.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

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

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for and President Kennedy died for.

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

Here in America, we have labored long and hard to achieve a social order worthy of our great heritage. In our time, tremendous progress has been made toward a really democratic way of life. Let me assure the forward-looking people of America that there will be no relaxation in our efforts to improve the lot of the common people.

My government's aim for Fiji is not to return to where we once were but to journey forward together to a place we have not yet been

… an America as good as its promise.

I've seen anti-Semitism essentially disappear in my adult life as a social and economic factor. There may be some nuts out there, but generally things are fine. I think the same thing will happen with gayness. We'll get to a point soon enough where it's not even an issue anymore. But progress can be slow