Campbell Brown Quotes

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction.

I realised how much the system did not want to change.

If we can be sure of anything, it's that the immense challenges faced by our country and our nation cannot be solved by the same people in the same offices, casting the same votes for the same failed policies.

Established systems are inherently hostile to change.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

If the House does not reform itself, it will be reformed from outside with a vengeance.

We've got a thousand lobbyists in thousand dollar suits giving you a thousand reasons we can't change.

There are people and interests that do not want change. It is not in their interest for this system to change.

Great institutions can only be reformed by stealth or by revolution.

Courts and judges are very slow to change. They are reactive organizations.

These reforms will not be popular with everybody—especially those who are doing just fine under the present system.

Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.

The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.