Joan Blades Quotes

I'm going to Congress to break down the doors of power.

We will send a petition to Washington with boots on.

You don't just get to show up in Washington and, because a terrible thing has happened to you, that you get to jump up and scream and yell.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

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

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

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

When I grow up I’m going to change the government.

I once had considerable expectations from Congress, But since they adopted the fiery resolves of … Massachusetts, all hope of good from them has vanished

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

You can get from a politician whatever you demand in this country. The great irony is that everybody complains about how it runs but not enough people direct their force and power directly at the politicians and make demands upon them. Ours is a system that abhors remoteness. If you're remote from this political system, it'll kill you.

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

I think Congress can pass a bill when the American people start regaining trust in the administration to actually do their job and enforce the laws that are already on the books.

Politicians move when the public requires them to move.

It's not at all a secret that I was one of the co-founders of Brand New Congress, and we've never tried to hide our goals.

Dealing with politicians, that's a little different. But government doesn't change until people demand it.

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

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.

We must challenge to fight at every level, including Congress and to make that challenge political and to organize as a political party is how we get traction.