Quotes About Change

Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.

Governor Hogan's successes and support in Maryland, including with Democrats, prove that Marylanders like the change he's bringing to our state, and they will support a candidate like me who will bring that same real change to Washington.

People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

Washington is unpredictable these days.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.

I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.