Progressive Solutions Quotes

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree with the extremists on any side of an issue, but there needs to continue to be an effort to find common ground, or even take it to higher ground on behalf of the future.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Growth solves (nearly) all problems

It doesn't suffice to knock the state, to destroy the ideals. Something has to replace those ideals if they're taken away.

What I am interested in are the philosophies of the future. That's what drives me.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

I have taken my outside-the-box, innovative, and sometimes unorthodox approach to Congress.

The populists are spreading slogans. We have to offer solutions and answers.

The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.

Make in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. It has to be a leapfrogging into the future, and India is ideally placed to do this.

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

How long do we have to deal with conservative failure? How long? Thirty years is not enough? So I would say enough with that, and I would say check out the Center for American Progress, and the writings by Patrick Garofalo, economic guru. That's what I would say.

Every era demands its own answers, and if one wants to do good, one must be prepared for them.

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

There may be left-wing or liberal solutions to our deeper problems. But an elite that tries to manage them away with more enlightened media curation deserves to inherit nothing but the wind.

One of the things I love about Fox News is that it looks at something and tries to figure out how it can be useful in the journey and bring everybody else along and lead the way.