Quotes About Reform

I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

I believe our schools will actually get better if layoffs are done carefully, such that only the very worst teachers are let go.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

We have to end cash bail.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

States are the architects of UDAY, not the central government.

I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.

I don't think that doing things a certain way because they've always been done that way is smart. I don't think you grow that way.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

Trudeau, like President Barack Obama, is a champion of change.

I am trying to change the world.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Policy is the way you can change the world.

If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.

I expect there will be more public charter schools.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

If there's amnesty leading to citizenship, I'm going to vote against it again.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

To me, I know that if we could pass the Civil Rights Act of '64 over 50 years ago, then we can pass Justice for All Civil Rights Act. We can pass Medicare for All.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

A reforming liberal leader in Russia is the Holy Grail of Kremlinology, but the search for one is as misguided and hopeless as that for the relic of the Last Supper.