Governmental Transition Quotes

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

As far as I understand, the president-elect of the United States [Donald Trump] is ready for such joint work. We do not know yet what it will be like in actual practice. We have to wait for him to take office and form his administration.

In government change is suspected.

We see governments come and go.

BJP doesn't practice the culture of stopping schemes of previous governments.

The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution.

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.