Vicente Fox Quotes

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s.

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

We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land.

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

Know that you are always safe. And also know that it's possible to move from the old to the new, easily and peacefully.

As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

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.

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

We have a devastated city and devastated souls ... The transition from communism to democracy proved to be a bomb that blew us up.

We launched perestroika [openness and restructuring] with our eyes open. We foresaw the complexity and the special nature of that process, realizing that it would shake up thoroughly our entire society. We were not wrong.... As for the difficulties—and they do exist—we accept them as a natural expression of contradictions inherent in a transition period.

We … need education in the obvious – to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law.

There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse.

Had there been the threat of Nuremburg-style trials for members of the apartheid state security establishment we would never have undergone a peaceful change.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives

Never has the future become so rapidly the past.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Once a citizen feels he is not powerless, he can aspire for more change. ... First, the Web democratized commerce, and then it democratized media, and now it is democratizing democracy.

It is not sufficient that the state of affairs which we seek to promote should be better than the state of affairs which preceded it; it must be sufficiently better to make up for the evils of the transition.

We’ve already decided to change. The question is: In which direction do we change, and from where do we start?

For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

There is always room for understanding towards those who see the old ways crumbling. And today I say simply this: It must come. It is right that it should come. And when it does, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders too.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

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