Helle Thorning-Schmidt Quotes

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

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

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins.

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.

Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually just as its starting on reform.

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

The transition is probably the most important part of the President's administration.

We have heard the trumpets. We have changed the guard. And now, each in our own way, and with God's help, we must answer the call.

Assassination has never yet changed the history of the world.

Any plan of reconstruction is wrong that tends to leave these old leaders in power.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

In all our history, there is no change of government peacefully.

No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

Every president is not only a new president. He comes in a new age.

To simply demand that Assad go, and create a vacuum, could make the circumstances worse. To 'protect' Assad and his brutality is unconscionable. So you have to have a transition period here.

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

I believe that everything starts from scratch when changing a coach.

When a new government comes, even the detractors want to give them a chance because they have been voted in by the people of the country.