“I give kudos to them for having the courage to bring me here… The risk is, I'm not the status quo.”
Jesse Ventura (1951) American politician and former professional wrestler
Harvard interview (February 2004)
"Smooth Sailing", ...Like Clockwork (2013)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
“I give kudos to them for having the courage to bring me here… The risk is, I'm not the status quo.”
Jesse Ventura (1951) American politician and former professional wrestler
Harvard interview (February 2004)
“Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
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<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project --> <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.
Steve Blank (1953) American businessman
Forbes "Lean And Meaningful: What Founders Still Need To Fix In The 21st Century" https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyinverso/2016/02/10/lean-and-meaningful-what-founders-still-need-to-fix-in-the-21st-century/#1a89897a2389. February 29, 2016 issue.
“Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.”
Garry Kasparov (1963) former chess world champion
Part III, Chapter 11, Question Success, p. 135
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 83
Max Eastman (1883–1969) American activist
Attributed by internet sources to Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics (1939), but not confirmed. <br class="br">Source: Enjoyment of Poetry With Anthology for Enjoyment of Poetry (1951), p. 233 https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/oV5emKH2uhcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=status%20quo <br class="br">Source: The quote appears to have been first published in the essay "The Slogan, 'Propaganda Has No Place in Art,' Is The Symptom Of A Decaying Culture" https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/WX3NyDFUC_MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=eastman, Stage Magazine (1934).
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2010s, 2011, Q&A with Former President George W. Bush (January 2011)
“I am not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
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
“I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)