Anatoly Chubais Quotes

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

We need someone to turn things around in America.

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

For politics to change … culture must change too --- and that takes much more than dispatching troops, holding elections, and writing constitutions.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

New laws are written, and new men are made.

The people are difficult to govern: It is because those in authority are too fond of action [change].

You cannot change the psychology of a people by a coup d'etat, or by some quick process of political chemistry convert an idle nobleman into a serious worker, or a medical student into a full-blown statesman.

Every candidate has to say ‘change’. That’s what the people expect.

The period of radical reform is finished.

Because I really believe that Russia needs a fresh face, a new generation, to be seen on the political stage.

We need new leaders, period.

The challenge we face as a government is meeting expectations - not specific expectations, but the larger expectations: things that need to be changed and that Narendra Modi will do it as though he has a magic wand.

Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.

I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.

Seven out of 10 Americans know the country's headed in the wrong direction, that in a very real sense that this is a clear choice between change in the status quo and I've always been telling crowds, the other side says if you like your status quo you can keep it.

Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change, never, ever. My message is that things have to change and they have to change right now.

The American people want change, and they see in Donald Trump a leader who embodies the American spirit.

And I think Trump wants to change America to make it great again for a generation, not just for eight years.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.