Victor Ponta Quotes

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

A week is a long time in politics.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

The next adventure is the government, a government of change.

In government change is suspected.

This government will mark a rupture from the previous one, because that is the wish of the French people.

History is full of changings of the guard—some for the better, some for the worse.

We can’t change our government unless we change the people who run it.

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

We know the only way to reimagine our government is to reimagine who is leading it.

[on Brexit] It's time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

I'm running because we need change.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

Change is rarely comfortable.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

I'm not someone who feels settled.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.