“In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.”
Concession Speech, March 2, 1996.
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Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia 1944Related quotes
“Global climate change is a big deal to me. We need to change our ways.”
[NewsBank, Bill Nye ‚ Foundation fundraiser guy, The Reporter, Lansdale, Pennsylvania, April 1, 2006, Jeff Ertz]
“When things are bad, change is good, right? Change means things will get better.”
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 1 (p. 19)
“Change is good but dollars are better.
- Tara daniels”
Source: The Sweetest Thing
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1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989), Farewell Address (1989)
Context: The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we're a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours. And something else we learned: Once you begin a great movement, there's no telling where it will end. We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.
“If I am elected, there may be an opportunity to change the tone for the better.”
Said while campaigning for the SNP leadership in 2014. Khaleeli, Homa (30 September 2014) Is post-referendum Scotland a feminist paradise? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/30/post-referendum-scotland-feminist-paradise on the Guardian website. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
2014
“Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.”
On US President Andrew Jackson, as quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994) by James Atkins Shackford, p. 112
Context: Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine. … I was also a supporter of this administration after it came into power, and until the Chief Magistrate changed the principles which he professed before his election. When he quitted those principles, I quit him. I am yet a Jackson man in principles, but not in name... I shall insist upon it that I am still a Jackson man, but General Jackson is not; he has become a Van Buren man.
“I've been saying this all along… the sun is the Big Kahuna of climate change on earth.”
1500 year solar cycle shows climate impacts http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/01/19/1500-year-solar-cycle-shows-climate-impacts/, wattsupwiththat.com, January 19, 2007.
2007