Quotes About Reform

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

I was hired to make United better, and that's what we'll do.

Hispanics have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act.

Currently, many job seekers must check a box on their applications indicating whether they have a criminal history. These boxes are often used as proxies for job fitness, and job-seekers with criminal histories frequently find themselves screened out of contention. As a matter of basic fairness and also economic sense, it's time to ban the box.

There's good cops and bad cops, and the good cops have to hold the bad cops accountable. We have to hold the bad cops accountable, too.

I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.

I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

I think the American people, through the healthy exchange of ideas, understood that they could do better as a country, in terms of healthcare, affordable education, affordable housing.

We need to change how we run banks. We need to change the culture. If we get it right, we can have a huge impact.

I have dedicated my career to advocating for a more equitable, humane criminal justice system.

I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.

There really is a hunger and a demand for something different in higher education.

To ask the power to reform itself, what a dullness!

A guy I worked with and I talked it over about what you do with drunks. His dad was a reformed drunk. He told me you got to stop trying to help them out. You got to stop making excuses for them and not take excuses from them. You got to put them on a spot where they can't do nothing but face the truth because they aren't going to change a bit till they decide to do it. They got to be the ones who believe they've turned into dregs and something has got to be changed.

The Julian calendar, which it replaced, computed the period of the earth's orbit around the sun at 365.25 days. Pope Gregory XIII's reform substituted a finer and more accurate calculation: 365.2425 days. Thanks to scientific advances since 1582 we now know that the exact length of the solar year is 365.2422 days.

Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine.

Don't apologize for believing the world is in better shape than it is," the commissioner told him. "Just fight to make it true.

And the black politicians…my God. I've watched black aldermen do patently illegal things and then brag about it. They don't care whether something is legal or not." "White politicians abused the system for years, Caitlin. They just did it in a more subtle way." "I know that. But is that an excuse for blacks to repeat the abuses of the old system? The system Martin Luther King and Malcolm X died to dismantle?

A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Some of the worst things were caused by people who tried to change things.

Ask any man with a long-enough experience of prisons, and he'll tell you that all it takes to harden a man's heart is a system of justice.