Status Quo Quotes - Page 2

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations. Once set in regulatory concrete, reconsideration of the basic underlying assumptions is very difficult. While it will be an uphill fight to re-examine the basic underlying assumptions of any law or administrative rule, it is clearly not impossible. It will just take longer than if not so well institutionalized.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

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

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

I love challenging the status quo.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

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

I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.