Lee H. Hamilton Quotes

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

To reform Congress, you have to get Congress to play along.

Canadians understand that our Senate, as it stands today, must either change or … vanish

I'm going to Congress to break down the doors of power.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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

For politics to change … culture must change too --- and that takes much more than dispatching troops, holding elections, and writing constitutions.

In government change is suspected.

In politics experiments mean revolutions.

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.

We Republicans came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.

For too long we have let history outrun our government’s ability to keep up with it.

You get few chances to make really transformational institutional change.

The Constitution will be reformed in accordance with our revolution.

In our political system it’s easier to block action than to act.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.

One must expect and even hope that there will be a future upheavals to shock the seats of power and privilege and furnish the periodic therapy that seems necessary to the health of our democracy.

People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.

Do something, Congress. Do anything.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Congress should get the job done.

The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step.

The reform of government needs to continue.