Quotes About Reform

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

Revolutions are not always brought about by a gradual decline from bad to worse. Nations that have endured patiently and almost unconsciously the most overwhelming oppression, often burst into rebellion against the yoke the moment it begins to grow lighter. The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.

It would be a different Church if I were running it." And so lifted the burden of that terrible morning with some laughter.

Revolution - In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

America doesn't have health insurance.

The death toll from health care screwups adds up to at least 500,000 Americans annually. That is the equivalent of more than three jumbo jets crashing every day of the year (or over 1,000 jets annually). Because these individuals are dying at home, in hospitals, or in nursing homes, no one is counting the bodies. There is no outrage, no plan to change a system that allows too many to die unnecessarily. The medical profession seems largely immune to the consequences of its errors.

I believe in health care reform.

Listening to a sermon that does not reform your life will never save your soul.

For anybody who suspects that we need to reform the drug laws, there is an easier argument to make, and a harder argument to make. The easier argument is to say that we all agree drugs are bad—it's just that drug prohibition is even worse.

Every single person reading this is the beneficiary of big civilizing social changes that seemed impossible when somebody first proposed them.

we need to approach drug addiction not as a criminal justice situation but more as a public health situation.

We could have looked instead at what does work: changing the environment in specific ways.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

All my life I have fought corruption.

I was tired of an outlaw's life.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

By all means subscribe to charities — subscribe to them largely — but don't get carried away by absurd schemes of Social Reform. I see a good deal behind the scenes, and you can take it from me that there is no Social Question — except for a few journalists who try to get a living out of the phrase. There are just rich and poor, as there always have been and always will be. Point me out a time when men have been equal

In the face of such evil, the federal government continued to slow-walk substantive reform, and white people continued to be white people.