It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.
Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out.
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
Already people are saying we do need a change.
While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
It's not that things won't change - they can't help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.
Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.
The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over.