Joe Manchin Quotes

Things don’t always get better. Sometimes they get worse. The only way things will get better if people make them better.

We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.

There are a lot of things that need correcting in this country, but there is not the slightest use of feeling over-pessimistic about it..

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.

It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

The world's becoming a better place, and again it is up to us to make sure we're doing the right things.

Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.

I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I see it, but I also have to believe that individuals - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

We have to take the world as we find it and do what we can to improve upon it.

Don't let it happen when the time comes, that you will be blamed by the next generation because you did nothing. Don't allow yourself to just stay at the side, clap your hands, smile, and wave your as we create history. i hope you can join in creating history.

People who have been empowered by positive change are demanding quick solutions to current problems.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves.

I don't think it's my job, single-handedly, to fix anything. I think it's my job to have a vision and have a plan that is reasonable and workable and get as many people to the table to effect change as possible.

If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.