Pramila Jayapal Quotes

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

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

The best way you make policy in Washington is by doing it yourself.

Progressives think the way to win is mobilizing and convince people to vote for something.

I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.

Americans understand that the game is rigged, and they've had enough of it. They're ready to fight back. They want a Washington that works for them, i think that people are getting more engaged, politically, and they're seeing through a lot of the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing out there for a long time. They want to see some real change, and I think that's what we need to work on.

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 am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.

The reform of government needs to continue.

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

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

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

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 don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

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.

Sometimes in Washington you get a little disconnected. I want to make sure I know what people are actually doing each day.

I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.

In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

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

People have to carry on with their lives, so only so much direct action can take place. Anti-nuclear activism may look dormant from appearances, but it’s there, like magma. It’s still brewing, and the next trigger might be another big protest or political change,

In the democracy we live in today, it takes crisis to get the politics moving.

The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.