Quotes About Reform

In China, the only creatures that can really block forward momentum are the leaders of the Communist Party. Zhu Rongji made his career by taming inflation, which reached an annual rate of 21.7 percent in 1994.

In the Deng Xiaoping era China had the highest growth rates in the world, but it now appears that much of the investment in the last quarter century was economically useless.

China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.

PROHIBITIONIST. The sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

To dream of an Angel is very good, denoting prosperity, joy, and the fulfilment of every wish. Should the angel turn away, it is a warning to reform.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause & reflect).

Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools: so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Whoever reads the account of the cries that came to us afloat on the sea from those sinking in the ice-cold water must remember that they were addressed to him just as much as to those who heard them, and that the duty of seeing that reforms are carried out devolves on every one who knows that such cries were heard in utter helplessness the night the Titanic sank.

The United States now ranks twentieth out of twenty-seven OECD nations in the share of young people expected to finish high school.50

institutional self-reform is rare; the conscience is willing, but the culture is rough.

The world will change, because it has to change.

Francis has a tragic blind spot — the corruption of clericalism….

The bombastic bushy-bearded beatnik bard promised land reforms, social justice and pickled plantains on every plate—the standard stipends of welfare-waffled Commie commissars.

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

In nearly a decade in city government, I have learned that the easiest thing to do in government is nothing. And in trying to deliver change, there will be those who are invested in the status quo who will be disrupted, or uncomfortable, or even lose out.

I think that if you're going after large banks and large financial companies to try to make sure people are being treated fairly, you're going to make some enemies, and you're going to make people uncomfortable.

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country when we treat people unfairly, when we incarcerate them unfairly, when we condemn them unfairly.

If someone thinks that education, health, infrastructure all are different sectors and issues and they ought to be fought independently, then they are mistaken. There is an underlying pattern in the process. And that is bad governance.

We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now with changes that do not undermine and ultimately drain from the entire program.

I have and will continue to oppose any legislation that would undermine the important consumer protections provided under Dodd-Frank.

All politicians will say they celebrate the NHS, but to a greater or lesser extent, they've all undermined it.

There's a reason people are not going to Obamacare. They find out what it's gonna cost 'em, and they go somewhere else. And in the process, they're undermining the very foundation of Obamacare, all of which was predictable.