Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.
I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.
Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.
We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
The first principle of achievement is mental attitude. People begin to achieve when they begin to believe.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.
I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
