Quotes About Reform

The mass incarceration going on in this country and with my people is crazy.

I want to look at the community I came from and what role incarceration has played there.

While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.

I am still committed to building a movement to end mass incarceration, but I will not do it with blinders on. If all we do is end mass incarceration, this movement will not have gone nearly far enough.

Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Democrats have been willing to make improvements to the ACA since its inception.

Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.

I am inclined to believe that it would be easier to build a new party than to save the Democratic Party from itself.

I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.

The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back.

Some people in India want to increase corruption and dishonesty in the name of caste.

We should be extremely cautious about continuing to increase sentences as a routine response to concerns over crime.

Increased spending, all these favors that we got to do for people - it's got to stop.

Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.

ICE has only become increasingly militarized, brutal, and unaccountable.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

Broken Britain isn't just about our indebted economy, it's also about our broken society and broken politics too.

It would be wrong to see the re-making of Asia, much less India,as a revolt against the West. Asia has indeed been re-built on the ruins of colonialism, but not on the ruins of all that the West has come to represent.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

No one should ever be wrongfully deprived of their rights to liberty and freedom without just cause, yet in the past 25 years alone thousands of people have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to tens of thousands of years in prison.

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea, to reform it . . . Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing.