Hamilton Jordan Quotes

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.

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

France, of course, doesn't need anyone. I don't believe in saviors. But the way in which our country is governed needs to change radically. That starts with the politicians and goes right up to our electoral system and beyond. What we need is a fundamental renewal.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

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

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by people who are deeply, in one way or another, inside this really broken system.

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

It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

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

These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.

We have to be bold, tough, and fundamentally change government because Springfield is broken.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

The Alternative Vote is sectarian and self-serving and it will not improve people's lives.

I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress.