“The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.” StillsFacesNextProcessDifficultPresidentChallengesProgressIraqMinistersPrimeFragileSpeakersRepresentativesEvidentPrime MinisterCouncil Author:David Petraeus
“I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.” ShouldHas BeensStillsStatesGovernmentPresidentUnitedUnited StatesProgressEuropeUnionsEuropean UnionSelectedWork In Progress Author:George Papandreou
“When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.” WellsMadeHousePresidentWhiteProgressTaxesReformWhite HouseComprehensiveCarterTax ReformPresident Carter Author:David Rubenstein
“We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.” MadePresidentEconomyProgressOfficePercentNinePresident Obama Author:Mitt Romney
“I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve some progress forward for national reconciliation.” PresidentProgressAchieveIraqCommittedReconciliation Author:Jalal Talabani
“Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.” PeopleMenYearsHas BeensStatesBlackPresidentWhiteUnitedUnited StatesProgressGoes OnVictoryListsBlack PeopleCould Have BeenQualifiedCarver Author:Chris Rock
“A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.” MenPersonsHomeSocialPresidentLeadershipEducationWatchesProgressDutyMedicinePostsFar AwaySocial Progress Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.” PeopleShouldHumansTwoEndsStatesGovernmentAbleOpportunityBlackPresidentWhiteUnitedClassPrinciplesUnited StatesEnvironmentRightsProgressAbuseSouthHuman RightsConvincedEnormousDiscriminationSuperiorsChampionBlack PeopleInferiorsRestraintBasic PrinciplesRacial DiscriminationEquality Of OpportunityBasic Human Rights Author:Jimmy Carter
“Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear.” Would BeAbleSufferingDifficultPresidentPoorEconomyProgressPromiseFactorsBarackDeliveringPresident Barack Obama Author:Russell Simmons
“The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.” PresidentProgressDinnerPresidentialSlogansGarage Author:Herbert Hoover