Quotes About Reform

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

Immigration reform doesn't impact me personally; nothing my foundation works on does. But the truth is I have a long history of ties to Latin America. Some of my best friends are in Latin America.

The last five-six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

People want progress, but they don't want change.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE!

Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.