Quo Quotes

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

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.

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

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.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.