Michael McCaul Quotes

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Real change happens a step at a time.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

Progress can be unglamorous.

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

The fulfillment of America’s ideals will have to be sought in the patient accumulations of partial successes.

I voted for McCain. But I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organized, very, very good. I was very impressed.

If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

Obama is not Bill Clinton. I don't think he's willing to let conservatives have any victories at all.

Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.

Making small changes every week over a few months will result in huge changes.

I believe in taking things slow, one step at a time.

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.

Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to build consensus and compromise.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

We can't start with big thinking, we have to approach it little by little. Sustainability isn't going to become big right away. Each day you give yourself a little bit more responsibility. It's not ideal, but that's the only way things change, we can't just keep ignoring it.