Quotes About Reform

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

Enough is enough and it's time for a change.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison, which is what happens about 70% of the time.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

The dominance of former communists and the insufficient discussion of the past in the post-communist world is not coincidental. To put it bluntly, former communists have a clear interest in concealing the past: it tarnishes them, undermines them, hurts their claims to be carrying out 'reforms,' even when they personally had nothing to do with the past crimes.

it is never too late to reform, as long as you have the sense to desire it, and the strength to execute your purpose.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

Great teachers are wonderful. They change lives. We need them. The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average. Why

Great teachers are precious. Lousy teachers cause damage that lasts forever. We need to reorganize our schools to free the great teachers from tests and reports and busywork, and to expel the lousy

The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average.

School does a great job of teaching students to do what we set out to teach them. It works. The problem is that what we're teaching is the wrong stuff. Here

Mayhap not, but a king ought to be far-sighted enough to realize that if reforms are inevitable, better he be the one to carry them out.

What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized