Quotes About Reform

And that you are yet alive is due to God, who spares you that you may be admonished to repent and reform your lives.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

Kalief Browder was arrested in 2010 at age sixteen for stealing a backpack and then held for three years without a trial on Rikers Island. During his time on Rikers, Kalief was beaten by both guards and inmates, and he spent an inconceivable two years in solitary confinement before his case was finally dismissed in 2013.

For this reason, temperance was an important component in the Progressive movement's effort to improve the lives of the working class.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

Truth reforms as well as informs.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

Most people would assume, as I do, that the courtroom is a place for the truth, but it's not with our corrupt judges today - and I'm talking about the corrupt ones on the court of appeals.

... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.

My grandfather was seventy-three. Over the course of his life, the definition and requirements of manhood had been subject to upheaval and reform. Like the electoral laws of his adopted home state, the end result was a mess.

In this country, there are two million people in prison. Two million. If the system gets it wrong one percent of the time, that is twenty thousand innocent people in jail. Lower it to half a percent and you're still at ten thousand people. This is what keeps me up at night. Why I always say, the scariest client is the innocent man. Because there is so much at stake.

It sometimes seemed to her as though the biggest barricades in the so-called justice system were on the inside, before you even got out the door.

the biggest barricades in the so-called justice system were on the inside, before you even got out the door.

who refuses to distinguish between setback and catastrophe; who worships accomplishment above all else and makes himself unbearable to others because he genuinely believes he can root out and reform every incidence of human fecklessness and mediocrity.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice.

The U.S. financial markets had always been either corrupt or about to be corrupted.

Really, it's brilliant what they have done within the bounds of the regulation. They are much less of a villain than I thought. The system has let down the investor.

Josh instead found himself trying to save Americans from their public-health system.

Why doesn't the United States have the institutions it needs to save itself?

By early 1996 Americans were spending $1.5 trillion a year on their health care and about a third of that was pure waste. Much of the waste could be avoided simply by eliminating the paperwork.