Success Quote by Daniel Ortega

“Conditions are ripe” is the kind of phrase that pretends history is a weather system: inevitable, impersonal, already on your side. Ortega’s line works because it launders ambition through destiny. If the moment is “ripe,” then seizing it isn’t a choice with moral costs; it’s just harvesting what time itself has prepared. That framing is classic political persuasion: it shrinks uncertainty, turns contingency into momentum, and invites listeners to feel they’re joining a winning tide rather than betting on a man.

The second sentence, “We will win,” is blunt, almost militarily spare. No policy, no concession, no horizon beyond victory. It’s an incantation meant to discipline doubt inside the movement and intimidate opponents outside it. In polarized contexts, certainty is currency; it signals control, discourages defections, and dares the public to get on the right side of history.

Then Ortega drops the veil: “we will wield great power here.” Not “serve,” not “rebuild,” not even “govern” - wield. The verb carries the metallic feel of a weapon or a tool: power as something held, used, directed. The subtext is less about winning an election than consolidating authority, making clear that triumph is not a means to reform but a permission slip to dominate the political space.

Placed against Nicaragua’s revolutionary legacy and Ortega’s later turn toward personalist rule, the quote reads as both rallying cry and warning label: victory as inevitability, power as the prize, accountability as an afterthought.