Power Handover Quotes

I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.

In an outgoing transition, you start closing the books on today and start working for the history books.

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it. We're all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else. And whether you yourself are inclined to stay on, all those around you are pushing you to stay on for what they will gain. One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on...unless you are a king.

The world's longest-serving dictator has just stepped down and handed over power. The national project of Cuba, which was Fidel's vision, is now finished. It's something - a small something, but still something.

We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over.

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

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

At the end of 4 years, you have a President who turns over all this enormous power without a single shot being fired.

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.

I’m single, I’m enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.

I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a coach would be fun. If I handed over the reins to a successor, I wouldn't stick around [to pull strings] like a retired emperor.

I hope that soon after the next election, amongst them they will have decided, settled, and the leader will be ready to take over from me.

When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.

In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history yet common in our country.

Make sure that they do not break anything because we are coming back in 4 years

I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.