Andrew Cuomo Quotes

Changing a political system is not a question of contesting and polemicizing, but of blowing everything up.

As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

Wanting to reform everything is the same thing as wanting to destroy everything.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.

On issue after issue, yes, Trump is barging in. Yes, he is throwing out the old playbook. It's called change, and unlike Obama, who talked endlessly about change, President Trump is actually delivering it.

When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.

Reform comes in the wake of disaster.

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Crisis creates leverage to change.

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

Sometimes you got to mess stuff up to get change going.

The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

Innovation is kind of a sub-piece of change.

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

Housing is the number one problem facing the citizens of Israel.

We do not need more status quo.

This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn't mean that after a crisis we move into some kind of utopia. But it is an opportunity for political change.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

There really is a hunger and a demand for something different in higher education.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.