Challenging Status Quo Quotes - Page 3

• And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

  Rick Perry

  Challenging The Status Quo, Messages, Getting Started

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• Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.

  Claire Danes

  New York, Growing Up, Confused

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Games, Challenges

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

  Tony Campolo

  America, Support, Church

  Tony Campolo (2008). “Letters To A Young Evangelical”, p.67, Basic Books

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• Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Travel, Adventure

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

  Craig Ferguson

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Games, Challenging The Status Quo

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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