Kristi Noem Quotes

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

You can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change Washington from the outside.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

Together, we can create something new, something bold, and something to act as a check and balance to Washington's out-of-touch agenda.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

We will send a petition to Washington with boots on.

We now have over a hundred thousand people who are signed up on our campaign and our petition to open up the debate, and we're encouraging people to come and to join us and to insist that we need to be included.

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

We are revolutionaries.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

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

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

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

Social change comes through people.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

To pass a big idea in this town. You almost need social unrest

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.