Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.
If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.
I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.
We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service.
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.
Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.
I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.
The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.
A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.
