Quotes About Reform

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

I made my third parole and I believe if I had made it the first time, I wouldn't be here today. I still would've been out there doing stupid stuff.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

Regulatory reform is my agenda. I intend to thoroughly work on this.

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them.

While no state has more at stake in immigration policy than California, the entire nation stands to benefit from thoughtful immigration reform.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.

Both the federal government and the states should go ahead and soak the rich to reduce inequality and raise money for health care, child care, infrastructure investment, education, decarbonization, and a thousand other priorities.

The school discipline program isn't working for the kids who aren't doing well and isn't needed by the kids who are.

Political cures only worsen the situation. For a changed society, changed men are necessary.

Poorly written reports, memos, announcements, and messages cost us time and money. They are blood clots in the body politic. The flow of information is blocked. Crucial problems go unsolved. Opportunities for reform and efficiency are buried. The

In fact, every major State reform has come in response to the strength and power of grassroots movements.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

Ay, every generation, every man is a part of his past. He cannot escape it, but he may reform the old materials, make something new

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.