Paul Ryan Quotes

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

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

We have had imperfect leaders in the past, and we will have imperfect leaders in the future.

I think there's always an adjustment when somebody new is runnings things, from the top down.

Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.

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.

Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.

Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

You have a losing team, you change the coach.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

Nobody wants to change.

To reverse and undo what has been done by a predecessor, is very often considered by a successor as the best proof he can give of his own capacity.

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And unfortunately, it is also the definition of Canadian politics.

Successful reform requires a long-term vision, driven by political leadership.

I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.

Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.

Any time you have a change of leadership in an organization, everything kind of shifts.

I'm really proud of a lot of the achievements we've made as a government but obviously I'll be putting my mark on the premiership and doing things that I think are important in terms of my own personal priority.

I think people expect when you have a new Premier that it's that Premier's prerogative to look at everything on the table and say, 'Well I'm the leader now. What do I want to take forward and what don't I?'

I believe we need new leadership to put the partisan gridlock behind us, and I promised my constituents I would vote for new leadership.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.