National Transformation Quotes

Nations are liable to various revolutions in the state of their minds, and extent of their knowledge, as well as in their power and wealth ….

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

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

In ancient Greece, a crisis was a period of judgment. It’s healthy for a country to go through a crisis.

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

The year 2016 was a year of revolutionary event, a year of great change, worthy of note in the history of our Party and country.

I kind of like America. I'm not looking for it to be fundamentally transformed into something else. I don't want it to become like Europe.

Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

People want the nation to transform in the same way they want their own lives to transform. If you're interested in transforming your life, you can't just transform some things. You can't try to fix some things, but sweep other things under the rug because it's too hard to face them. And the same is true for a nation.

Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and to lift up the Indian people. And we're hopeful that that's going to create positive momentum.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction.

We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions.

In 2008, Barack Obama had all the wind at his back, everything going for him. He was an African-American at a time when the country was eager to do that. The Republicans had, in the view of many of us, pretty much disgraced themselves at home and abroad for eight years.

A man can be born again ... If this be true of one, it can be true of any number. Thus, a nation can be born in a day if the ideals of the people can be changed.

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.

The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.

You don't change the course of the country in twenty-four hours.

Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

This country's gonna be greater, more united, more powerful than it's ever been.

There are change elections and there are 'more of the same' elections, and there was a lot of economic anxiety in the 1992 election and (Bill Clinton) was able to drive a change narrative. after eight years of Barack Obama, it's very difficult to understand what kind of change it is that Hillary Clinton's candidacy could represent.

I think there's a need for the participation of the military for the stability of the transformation period of Burma. If the military and the people do unite together for the sake of our country, we can reach the development of our country in a very short time.

I just have a sense that Obama's not going to ultimately succeed in totally transforming America into something other than how it was founded.

I think the country requires fresh leadership. I do not think I can be the captain to take the country to its next destination.