As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.
It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.
I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.
Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.
Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.
When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.
I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.
If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.
The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year.
Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.