Marianne Williamson Quotes

I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that's in place is not what's beneficial in the country.

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

We need new energy back in Washington.

It’s a strange thing in American politics that everyone who runs for office in Washington, runs against Washington.

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

Washington is broken but America still works.

Change very often comes to Washington, not from Washington.

Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.

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

Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.

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.

As a newcomer to politics, I knew in my bones that we as a country were better than what we see coming out of Washington. And we are.

… lobbyist-larded Washington

… we need to know ourselves, not only our own little group or our own little part of the country, but the country as a whole and all its people. This will inspire in us an even greater fervor of spirit to see our country attain the ideals we have always cherished.

Another reason commissions are able to produce consensus—perhaps the rarest of Washington commodities—is the simple opportunity they provide for intense private deliberations.

Ideology isn’t driving the dynamic in Washington, it’s the desire to stay in power.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation

In Washington, every closet has a revolving door.

Washington is a mirror reflecting our instinct.

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

Some of the United States' enemies now assume, perhaps rightly, that we hate each other so much that we'd sooner collaborate with them than do the difficult work of listening to each other. It doesn't need to be this way - but national recovery won't come from Washington. It has to start with you.

The lack of trust between the federal government and the American citizens of this country is such a wide gap, we have to renew that trust for the people of this country going forward.

I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.