“The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.”

Address Accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States — Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles (15 July 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx&lt;!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project --&gt; <br class="br">1960 <br class="br">Context: Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.

Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 4, Conquest

Source: Islands in the Net (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 47)

This is a quote by Newt Gingrich, first appearing in an article in the Los Angeles Times in 1991. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-25/magazine/tm-2004_1_newt-gingrich/2 <br class="br">Misattributed

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)

In turn, 'different' people are thought to be 'mad.'
Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)

Academy of Achievement interview (1991)

Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)