Arlen Specter Quotes

I have converted this Cape from a barren waste…to a desirable place of refreshment.

If it were my decision, I'd knock the Superdome down. If I couldn't knock it down, I'd just open the roof and gut the whole inside - totally modernize it. If you just dust it off and paint a little bit but don't reimage it, the legacy will be horrible.

Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

If you have a chance of working for a healthy company or a sick one, choose the sick one. The sickest ones need the best doctors and it's a lot easier to stand out in a company that needs help.

I would disembowel the CIA. It’s contaminated. And if you take half-hearted measures, it will remain contaminated.

We are out to rebuild the world.

We got to go one step further than even 'Make in India.' Let's make India itself - India 2.0, the updated version.

A little makeover never hurt nobody.

With destruction comes renovation.

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Behold, I make all things new.

Our show is about starting over.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

I want to rebuild America.

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

Accountability goes hand in hand with reform.

It is much better to reform than to destroy.

There are changes in the works.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.