John McDonnell Quotes

I have changed my ministers, but I have not changed my measures.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

If something awful happens to the President, we’ll get another President.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.'

In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

Change in leadership does not only come in a pin stripe suit with a bald spot on its head.

The turnover in the Congress last year was less than in the old Soviet style Politburo.

Whenever there is a new Soviet leader, our experts speculate about the changes as if one man could change a whole society. In their system, power doesn't come with the office. It takes many years to acquire.

Can old dogs learn new tricks? …. Issue positions among partisans tend to be relatively stable… Party position changes tend to come not from learning new tricks but from electing new dogs.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Taft is as fine a fellow as ever sat in the President’s chair, and I cannot express the measureless content that comes over me as I think that the work in which I have so much believed will be carried on by him.

After President Obama took office, his campaign book 'The Audacity of Hope' receded into his past fast. Its sweet, naive, bipartisan 'let's reason together' passages fell away, too.

I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.

I believe that politics is a matter of person. Specifically in the Fifth French Republic. In a healthy political system, a political party should resemble its leader.

America can change its presidents, but the world doesn't change.

In business terms, if you take over a company and oust its CEO or fire a divisional chief, you run the place. But in institutional terms, as it happens, it doesn't at all work that way.

If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.

BJP doesn't practice the culture of stopping schemes of previous governments.

I think any time there's a change in leadership there's a different personality, there's a different style involved with it, different demeanor.