Quotes About Reform

The immigration issue is a gateway issue for Hispanics, no doubt about it.

Just like American families, government agencies need to start doing more with less, and the Internal Revenue Service is no exception.

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

In 2001, we didn't have an army; we had remnants of a dissolved army that had no hope. Our generals had literally become busboys.

We loathe mass incarceration. We loathe police brutality. But most of us have absolutely no idea how to address the critical flaws in our justice system.

Deng Xiaoping went on with his efforts to normalize life in China and implement the Four Modernizations Program. Entrance examinations for universities and colleges were reinstituted.

we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors. [ This quote illustrates the reformed spelling advocated by Webster .]

Una reforma de los primeros niveles de la educación podía provocar cambios sociales significativos.

There is no contradiction here. People live and suffer and endure in the real world of existing society, and any decent person should favor employing what means are available to safeguard and benefit them, even if a long-term goal is to displace these devices and construct preferable alternatives. In

the educational systems are oriented to maintaining the existing social and economic structures instead of transforming them

Not even mentioned is the possibility, discussed by economist Dean Baker, that the deficit might be eliminated if the dysfunctional privatized health care system were replaced by one similar to those in other industrial societies, which have half the per capita costs and at least comparable health outcomes.

Maria Theresa dollar of 1751.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Rather, in our distorted fee-for-service world, the work to coordinate and oversee care just isn't as profitable as other activities.

any program for resolving our runaway health-care costs that does not have a credible plan for changing the way we care for the chronically ill can't make more than a small dent in the total problem.

Mas não é disto que se trata! Não é por vossa causa, povo, que nos, abolimos a pena de morte, mas por nossa causa, deputados, que podemos ser ministros; nós não queremos que a máquina da guilhotina morda as altas classes. Por isso quebramo-la. Tanto melhor se isto serve para toda a gente, mas só em nos pensamos.

We were full of experiments and reforms, we were going to do without table napkins. Everything was going to be new, everything was going to be different. Everything was on trial.

una buena parte de ese espíritu de servicio público, de imperio británico, de reforma tributaria, de espíritu de la clase gobernante

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

Dates are given in the Julian calendar, in effect since the time of Julius Caesar.

If they want to help the black community, why don't they make some changes to the system first instead?