Change in Leadership Quotes

I am tired, I would like to rest, it’s time for the country to be ruled by younger leaders.

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

After a two-term presidency, many young voters seem to want someone who is radically different from, even the opposite of, the commander in chief to whom they have become accustomed. After all, a two-term president will have led their nation for a significant percentage of their lives. That's boring. Isn't it time for a transformation?

Their methods of doing things are so very different from ours [Taft and his staff], and the people will welcome a change..

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.

I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.

If Americans want President Trump to be successful, we must retire Speaker Ryan.

For four years, Americans have waited for the faintest light to flicker at the end of the tunnel. And this President has let them down again and again and again. It is time to move on. It is time for a leader who will lead. That leader is Mitt Romney.

If you've worked together with somebody very well, leave-taking is very difficult. But we are all politicians. We all know that democracy lives off change. So, in the United States of America, the Constitution has very clear stipulations on this. It's a tough rule. Eight years and that's it, out goes the president and a new one comes in.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until we can get somebody who can bring some business sense to Washington D.C., and I think that is the one thing I bring.

In his speech last night, John Kerry said this was the beginning of the end of the Bush administration. I agree. Sure, it may take another five years, but this is it.

Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

The people have grown tired of the monotony of being served for 20, 30—or 40 years by the same men in Parliament…. Let the Irish people replace us, by all means, by other, and I hope, better men, if they so choose.

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone whos just going to be a little different than the person in there. If youre going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future.

Nobody likes to see a coaching change during the season.

Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful.

You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.