Quotes About Reform

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

New rule: Stop calling it Obamacare. It's not like Obama will be the doctor for your next prostate exam. That's just a common fantasy of Republican men.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

Until you change the way money works, you change nothing.

I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.