Mike Quigley Quotes

When I ran for the Senate, I ran to bring change to Washington, not simply to become a woman senator.

The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.

The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside?

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I've got three little kids at home, and I'm trying to save this country from itself. I'm not here to play political power games, and I've had enough of people playing political power games, and this has just gone on too long.

Like a lot of people, I'm interested in public service and want to do as much as I can to change the direction of this country and will give some consideration to that after midterm elections.

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

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

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

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

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

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

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level.

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

My whole deal is reforming, changing, shaking up Washington. It sure needs it.

We have to become involved in the political process - if we don't like it, we can change it.

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

I had this perception based on my own frustrations with Washington, but I didn't realize until I launched this campaign how much people are looking for a new generation of leadership and a new approach in Washington.

Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.