Quotes About Reform

I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there.

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and medical leave.

Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.

Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S.

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we believe, to build a better world.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.