Quotes about Peaceful Transfer of Power

Rached Ghannouchi

The Ennahda-led government did something never before seen in the region: it willingly stepped down

The Arab world had no history or appreciation of democratic government controlled by the people with regime change at the public will.

Paul Kagame

It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.

James Fallows

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.

Adama Barrow

It is a very good warning to all of the dictators. If you lose an election, you have to go gacefully, or you will be disgraced.

The "It" referred to the fact that when he won the Gambian Presidential election, his predecessor refused to step down and had enough control of the military to prevent anyone else in the Gambia to force hium out. However a few neighboring Afriucan States sen troops into the Gambia. The Army did not want a way and so they stopped supporting the ex-president and he left the country in disgrace.

Mahatma Gandhi

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

Jan Brewer

I think Donald Trump believes in democracy and the right to change of power.

Oscar Arias

While the armed forces have intervened in the political affairs of every other Central American country over the past fifty years, with disastrous results, in Costa Rica we have peacefully transferred power from one administration to the next every four years.

Nancy Gibbs

You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go on and get out of there. But there are a few little rituals that have to be observed. One of them is that the president must host the incoming president in the White House, smile as if they love each other and give the American people the idea that democracy is peaceful and honourable and there will be a good transfer of power

Mara Liasson

Does Donald Trump accept the results and concede graciously, pursue legal action, or tell his followers to take to the streets?

David Brooks

There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really bad transitions, I would say Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy. I would say this is beginning to look like a bad transition, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump as they begin to argue even at the presidential level, which is more or less unprecedented.

Peaceful Transfer of Power Quotes