Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

Reform that you may preserve.

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

There is always room for understanding towards those who see the old ways crumbling. And today I say simply this: It must come. It is right that it should come. And when it does, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders too.

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.

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

Reform is not a period of retreat.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

The standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

Reform is a verb …. The process of Reform is an ongoing, dynamic one, not a static process that has reformed and is finished becoming.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

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.

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.

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

Reform can only move forward. It cannot stagnate. Even more so, it can’t move backward.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.