Howard Metzenbaum Quotes

Republicans will own Congress.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

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

While the new GOP House majority is the second-largest since World War II, more people cast votes for Democratic House candidates than for Republican candidates.

A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

I've got three little kids at home, and I'm trying to save this country from itself. I'm not here to play political power games, and I've had enough of people playing political power games, and this has just gone on too long.

This is just not the Democratic Party we used to know.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

I ran for Congress because I want to help change the way we do business in Washington, D.C.

A week is a long time in politics.

Four years is a long time in politics.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

The principle issue in this election is whether or not you are prepared to do anything new.

Those members of Congress who want to bring back pork to their districts should stand up proudly and be counted.

New politicians try to displace old ones by changing the electoral laws, while entrenched politicians defend outworn electoral systems when they feel that the new laws might weaken their positions and perhaps even abolish their sinecures.