Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly.

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.

The path to an amendment to the Constitution is a thorny one.

We keep looking at democratization as an event—like the fall of the Berlin Wall—but it’s actually a process.

The Constitution will be reformed in accordance with our revolution.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

As our economy advances, our government and our laws need to modernize, too.

It takes time to restore an old historic car - you can't just do it overnight. That's how I look at the administration that came before Obama.

People who have been in and around government and politics for their entire lives may no longer be able to see the truth. Our government must be fundamentally reformed. The system has to be changed. Our politics can no longer tinker on the edges.

Listen to your conscience regarding something that you simply know you should do, then start small on it - make a promise and keep it. Then move forward and make a little larger promise and keep it. Eventually you'll discover that your sense of honor will become greater than your moods, and that will give you a level of confidence and excitement that you can move to other areas where you feel you need to make improvements or give service.

For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

I wish the constitution, which is offered, had been made more perfect; but I sincerely believe it is the best that could be obtained at this time. And, as a constitutional door is opened for amendment hereafter, the adoption of it, under the present circumstances of the Union, is in my opinion desirable.

Reform is a process, and not an event.

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.