James Hansen Quotes

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

President Barack Obama is a doer. And we in America will do big things with him.

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

The times demand not a man bearing promises of new things, but a man who can finish the things begun...

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.

Change the world is maybe Obama's job.

And I think Trump wants to change America to make it great again for a generation, not just for eight years.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world...

If you've worked together with somebody very well, leave-taking is very difficult. But we are all politicians. We all know that democracy lives off change. So, in the United States of America, the Constitution has very clear stipulations on this. It's a tough rule. Eight years and that's it, out goes the president and a new one comes in.

It's not just enough to change the president if we want to change America.

Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.

The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.

The world is begging for you to lead.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.

I'm not running for president to be somebody, I'm running for president to do something!

The time for change is now.

Enough is enough and it's time for a change.

Hillary Clinton's message is old and tired. Her message is that things can't change. My message is that things have to change.

I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.

It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.

It doesn't have to be the same line that we have had for the last 40 years, because that clearly isn't working on any level. But you have got to have a pretty clear line on this crucial issue.