Status Quo Quotes - Page 5

• Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

  Gary Johnson

  Opportunity, Common Sense, Political

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• A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Risk, East

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• NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

  Arundhati Roy

  Space, World, Complicated

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• The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of reformers, radicals, and idealists who challenged the status quo of their day. They helped change America by organizing movements, pushing for radical reforms, popularizing progressive ideas, and spurring others to action.

  Peter Dreier

  Common Sense, Action, Progressive

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Accepting, Dies

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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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• I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

  Michael Nutter

  Running, Challenging The Status Quo, Challenging Status Quo

  "Philadelphia Is Going Nuts for Mayor Michael Nutter". abcnews.go.com. February 13, 2008.

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• Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Real, Trying, Honest

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Challenging The Status Quo, Harsh, Challenging Status Quo

  "The (Real) Governator". Interview With Lisa Depaulo, www.gq.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

  Eli Broad

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Ideas, Challenging The Status Quo

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• When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

  George Saunders

  Average, Guy, Culture

  "This Week in Fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2012.

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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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• People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

  Steven Pinker

  Acceptance, Long, People

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• The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

  Mitch Daniels

  Enemy, Challenging The Status Quo, Social

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

  Lily Cole

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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, Challenging Status Quo

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• Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

  Jello Biafra

  Creating, Stupidity, Important

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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• The status quo cannot work.

  Kofi Annan

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• I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

  Elizabeth May

  Party, Fighting, Cutting

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• The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Thinking, Imagination, Meals

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• It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Speaks Out, Singing

  "Barack Obama address on civil rights in Selma, Alabama - full text", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2015.

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• I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

  Stephen Colbert

  Accepting, Visa, American Express

  "There's Nothing Funny About Colbert's SuperPAC" by Peter Overby, www.npr.org. June 30, 2011.

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• Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.

  Robert Fritz

  Fall, Effort, Trying

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• I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make this country a heck of a lot stronger. Not a politician typical, but somebody that's going to go and do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strengthening our military as well.

  John Kasich

  Change, Strength, Country

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2015.

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