Tony Benn Quotes

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

Never waste a crisis.

There is energy and power in a crisis.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

We need someone to turn things around in America.

If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

If you want change, you have to offer change.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Never let a national crisis go to waste.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

To this nation and to every nation there come formative periods in its life and history. New conditions can be met only by new methods. Meeting these conditions hopefully, and facing them bravely and wisely, is to be the mightiest test of American virtue and capacity. Without abandoning past limitations, traditions, and principles, by meeting present opportunities and obligations, we shall show ourselves worthy of the great trusts which civilization has imposed upon us.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

Each crisis brings its word and deed.

Some talk change. Others cause it..

I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.

The problems of a period are the existential crises of what can be but hasn't yet been resolved; and regardless of how seriously we take that word 'resolved,' if there were not some new possibility, there would be no crisis - there would be only despair.

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

My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.