Quotes About Reform

Due to the system of mandatory cash bail, people in jails across the US have not yet been convicted of a crime, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. Even the innocent might remain in jail for days, weeks, or even years simply because they cannot afford their bail.

The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.

All of them, street cops and supervisors, were now smothered in paperwork designed to prove that they were "reforming" a police force of more than ninety-five hundred souls who ostensibly needed reforming because of the actions of half a dozen convicted cops from both incidents combined.

Los cambios son meramente cosméticos para que opere el principio lampedusiano: 'cambiarlo todo para que nada cambie.

Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet

Indians are first class people suffering from third class governance.

It doesn't make any sense to continue to elect people like Ron Kind or Russ Feingold, individuals that literally are dedicated to growing the federal government.

There are good things about Indonesia, but there are bad things about it that I hope can be fixed.

You don't have to destroy an entire industry to rid it of corruption.

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

Health-care costs when I got into the industry in '88 were 16 percent a year inflation. When I got out in 1997, they were less than 1 percent.

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

Either you're for ending Citizens United, or you're not. So, if you're for ending Citizens United, then act like you are against corporations influencing our democratic process.

Racist infrastructure has damaged districts like mine for generations.

Our schools, like so many parts of our infrastructure, are crumbling across the country. Healing our schools can and should be central to our fight to achieve environmental, racial and economic justice.

I was 11 years old when I was initially brutalized by the police, just for horse-playing with my friends and not responding to the police in the way they wanted me to.

The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.

We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.

Any time that when you're rich and guilty, you're treated better than if you're poor and innocent, something has to change.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

Policy doesn't move as quickly as innovation happens.