Leonard Constant Lambert Quotes

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'

Change: In politics, the substitution of one disappointment for another.

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

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

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

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

Tectonic shifts in American politics take time—often a long time.

In government change is suspected.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

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

Inertia is as powerful a force in society and politics as it is on physics, and effecting change can be demanding and discouraging.

There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of.

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.

Change very often comes to Washington, not from Washington.

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.

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

Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.

I was politically complacent during the Blair years. Things were good and people thought things would be good forever.

The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change.

I think people in America have had enough, and Donald Trump's the change agent.

To a large extent, the political walls are crumbling.