Quotes About Reform

This election [2016], and I believe this, is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration and reform our laws to make your life better.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

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

By 2018, the laws had changed in many (though not all) states, and sixty-six US-based innocence projects had launched, with another ten in other countries joining the "Innocence Network" as well.

Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution -- the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door?

Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.

simplify rules, regulations, and laws. Get government out of the business of micromanaging.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

One curious feature about political reform is that so many people feel it is "disloyal" to attempt to rectify the abuses in one's own party. And yet it is obvious that political morality is dependent upon the awakened conscience and private morality of the voters. Such "disloyalty" is simply an evidence of loyalty to principle.

I became a much more ardent citizen and feminist than anyone about me in the intermediate years would have dreamed possible. I had learned that if you wanted to institute any kind of reform, you could get far more attention if you had a vote than if you lacked one.

Los problemas de los jóvenes sólo pueden resolverse por la vía de la educación, jamás por la fuerza, la violencia o la corrupción. Ésa ha sido mi norma constante de acción y el objeto de mi entrega total, en tiempo y energías, durante el desempeño de la rectoría. El rector, Ing. Javier Barros Sierra, texto de su renuncia a la H. Junta de Gobierno de la UNAM, el 23 de septiembre de 1968.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

Did you ever know a poor man made better by law or a lawyer!' said Bunce bitterly.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?

In effect, historians abolished poverty by the simple device of taking it off the agenda.

People don't have to run a marathon to fight against the social evils, but to promote the right person at the topmost height position to take a proactive action for the desired correction

People who do not want to correct the corrupt system will put the blame squarely on machine and even protest to remove its usage, but protect cleverly the top men who make the mechanism defunct.

One major reason why radical economic reform was almost impossibly difficult to introduce in the Soviet Union was the strength of vested interests – in the first place, the bureaucracies of the economic ministries and the regional party organizations.

The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.

El sistema está roto», o «el gobierno está demasiado polarizado como para someterlo a una reforma severa». Sí, hay muchas cosas que los gobiernos deben hacer, pero no podemos delegar nuestra compasión a nuestro gobierno y sentarnos a un lado quejándonos del hecho de que no hace lo suficiente. Desde

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.