Sharad Pawar Quotes

Real change happens a step at a time.

Constant, patient reform—the only kind of reform compatible with Democratic stability—is unsatisfying.

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Have patience, Radicals—Rome wasn't burnt in a day.

Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.

… many think that changes and reforms can take place in a short time. I believe that we always need time to lay the foundations for real, effective change.

You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

There are no instant solutions.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Tectonic shifts in American politics take time—often a long time.

The evils which are complained of can not be eradicated at once; the work must be gradual.

Great goals are reached step by step.

My fear is that in general terms the evolution of the political process proceeds at the same pace as the evolution of the species and I do not myself believe that that is quite fast enough

How much reform do you think this institution [Congress] can take?

One must expect and even hope that there will be a future upheavals to shock the seats of power and privilege and furnish the periodic therapy that seems necessary to the health of our democracy.