Quotes About Reform

Governments change but the system doesn't. One needs to believe in the system.

Changing the ways of governments usually doesn't happen quickly, but time is a luxury the world no longer enjoys.

I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.

As governor, I cut $5 billion in spending.

When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.

I would be a fool to say I enjoyed being in borstal, but when I was there I had a great time.

Greece has to stay in the euro.

The Democratic Party needs to take a stand against corporate greed.

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

What we need is fundamental reform to address the deep social and economic problems that are gripping people and communities nationwide, particularly the least advantaged.

We need to vote people out of office that are perpetuating issues affecting young people, like gun violence.

Haiti has changed a lot.

There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

We can't educate today's students for tomorrow's challenges with yesterday's schools.

Secular humanists of every type may ridicule the Bible, but they cannot escape it; and in their obsession with change, calls for reform, doomsday warnings, and utopian visions, they continue to steal from it.

These chaps everyone's been shouting at to change things, they're the very chaps that do so well as things are. Think they're going to make new rules for a game they always win? Not ruddy likely.

The common denominator in business marketing, political democracy, and religious reform is the transfer of power from service providers to service consumers.

He soon made himself deeply disliked by many naval officers by his energetic reforming and general meddling, although this was largely to his credit. He wanted to improve the conditions of ordinary seamen, and to increase their pay for the first time since the early days of Victoria's reign, and at the other end he created a naval staff. 'I knew thoroughly the current

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

If you are to punish a man retributively, you must injure him. If you are to reform him, you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.