Quotation Collection

Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable. Milton Friedman

• ideas
• crisis

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. Michelangelo Buonarroti

• dreams
• goals
• ambition

He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind. Thomas Secker

• gratitude
• contentment

The purpose of a campaign is to send an intelligent and informed voter to the ballot box. Calvin Coolidge

• politics