Richard M. Daley Quotes

We have to change.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

We do not need more status quo.

We've got to change the way we do things.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

I really felt it was time for a new vision.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.