Quotes About Reform

Who wants to privatize Medicare.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it?

The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

I think people want to see change, want to see something new and Hillary Clinton is just not that person.

An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.

In Quebec, we can no longer increase taxes if we want to stay competitive.

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

Some Chinese intellectuals and entrepreneurs told me they were positively inclined toward Trump, intrigued with his profile as a brash businessman–TV star, and hoped he would put pressure on Xi to undertake the reforms they believed were overdue in China.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Like Peter the Great, Catherine liked many of the ideas of the West... She bought many western customs to Russia. She rewrote Russia's confusing, ancient laws so that her people would have more rights... She opened new schools and started the first college for Russian women. She even made a woman the director of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

The English criminal code, later known as the "Bloody Code," was brutal in the late 18th century. By the time the first legal reforms were enacted in 1826, 220 crimes—many of them relatively petty crimes against property as Dickens describes in the rest of the paragraph—were punishable by death.

But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.   ????

I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

Together, we can create something new, something bold, and something to act as a check and balance to Washington's out-of-touch agenda.

I want to bring something new to boxing.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.