Quotes About Reform

Much of the foundation of our criminal justice system is derived from slave patrols and was created when African Americans could still be bought, sold, and traded.

Since JPMorgan Chase announced its surprise $2 billion-and-growing trading loss, there have been renewed calls from economists, pundits, and politicians to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law that prevented commercial banks from participating in investment banking activities.

The best thing we can do to secure the future of the global system, trading system, is to redouble the efforts to improve the system, to reform the system.

Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail.

I think the best way that we can bring people together is through change in Washington, D.C.

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

true believers in the ability of government to do good—often find it difficult to limit themselves to a few issues.

at bottom he did not believe the people wanted reform; they wanted a ten percent raise in wages. The public mind was a thing too big, too complicated and inert for a vision or an ideal to get at and move deeply.

He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier.

On the day I took office, the annual inflation rate in Israel had reached a horrific 400 percent.

It has been believed for a long time in Japan that things such as the constitution can never be changed. I say we should change our constitution now. The U.S. has amended its constitution six times, but Japan has done it zero times.

What we need in this country today is leadership which has the courage to call for income tax reform to put the burden where it must be placed, on those who can afford to pay. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

If there were another word more all-embracing than revolution we would use it.

Ein System war wirklich am Ende, wenn es nicht einmal seinen Kriminellen eine Zukunft bot.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

Punishment creates crime.

If things go wrong, they simply don't repay their debt, the old directors walk away, and new ones come in promising to sweep up the mess

But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you the social reformer see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.