Quotes About Change

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.