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Quotes About Reform

$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.
~ William J. Clinton
I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.
~ Zalmay Khalilzad
In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.
~ Lawrence Lessig
If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.
~ Lee Klein
It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.
~ Lois Capps
When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.
~ Louis C. K.
It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.
~ Mark Twain
Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.
~ Mark Twain
The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.
~ Muhammad Yunus
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
~ Mark Twain
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious
~ Mark Twain
Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.
~ Mark Twain
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
~ Mark Twain
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform — (or pause and reflect).
~ Mark Twain
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example. It is still clinging to one or two things which were useful once, but which are not useful now, neither are they ornamental.
~ Mark Twain
their form of government in such a manner as they may think expedient." Under that gospel, the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor.
~ Mark Twain
Siempre que veas que te encuentras del lado de la mayoría, es el momento de reformarse, o hacer una pausa y reflexionar
~ Mark Twain
It is a shame that we must continue to use a worthless system because it was good a thousand years ago.
~ Mark Twain
KoÅ›cióÅ' d??y do zreformowania innych ludzi. Nie byÅ'oby to zÅ'e, gdyby raz, dla przykÅ'adu chocia?by, sam siÄ™ trochÄ™ zreformowaÅ'.
~ Mark Twain
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
~ Mark Twain (Author)
Human progress depends on the socially maladjusted
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Perhaps…the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yet the average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the exclusive villain. He has to rise up with indignation against his own municipal, state and national governments to demand that the necessary reforms be instituted which alone will protect him. If he reserves his resentment only for the Negro, he will be the victim by allowing those who have the greatest culpability to evade responsibility.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.