Elizabeth Warren Quotes

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

You can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change Washington from the outside.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

Having a small business and being one of thousands of people whom no one in government will listen to, I have decided to run for supervisor as a person.

I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the way politics were being done in Colombia, was not possible the way I wanted to do it - by confronting, by denouncing.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

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

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

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.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted ... must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones.

Great political and social changes begin to be possible as soon as men are not afraid to risk their lives.

We can’t change our government unless we change the people who run it.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

Many of you are disillusioned with the performance of this and past governments, and with the unkept promises. But we have to understand that we cannot manage without these reforms.

When I grow up I’m going to change the government.