Quotes About Reform

Más allá de sus diferencias políticas con la República restaurada, el Porfiriato puede leerse como su estricta continuación, y la Revolución mexicana como una reimplantación institucional, social y política del Porfiriato. "Porfirismo colectivo"

A todo eso se le llama entonces "cambio estructural". Le llamarían neoliberalismo después.

México parece listo para dar el paso, pero no lo está realmente. No está dispuesto, ni en el gobierno ni en la sociedad, a someterse a lo único que puede arbitrar una pluralidad democrática efectiva: el respeto colectivo a la ley.

Crear un "país de leyes" —un país donde se cumplan las leyes— es el más viejo propósito de los gobiernos de México. Es también el fracaso político más repetido de nuestra historia.

Crear un país de leyes significa arrancar esa costumbre de un sector todavía amplio de la sociedad mexicana.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

The whole country is, and it's sad. Because, before long if the law is not going to do anything about it, people will start taking the law into their own hand. Then there will be a lot of people getting hurt, and then the ones that want to defund the police will be begging for the law to help them.

There may be room in government service for the altruist and the iconoclast, but I have yet to see one who was not treated as an oddity at best and at worst an object of suspicion and fear.

If I could run the world, I'd find another way to treat most of these criminals—most of them, not all of them—but we find widespread solutions to widespread problems in this country, so we just build big prisons and stick everyone inside them and, for the most part, forget about them once they're gone. Noah

American violence mirrors that of my home country. And the laws here, much like where I was born, seem to favor criminals and not victims. Criminals get released very quickly.

Nothing needs reforming," he said by way of beginning, "so much as other people's habits.

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Unfortunately, in places like Ferguson, in New York City and in some communities across this nation, there is a disconnect between police agencies and the citizens they serve, predominately in communities of color.

Healthcare in the U.S. remains a dire mess, and the Obama presidency, unfortunately, didn't really address that.

I'm grateful that President Trump is willing to talk about paid leave, but his policy, unfortunately, is woefully inadequate.

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

They should forget about tradition and start doing things for the fans, especially women. Have lights flash after a basket. Have uniforms designed by Dior.

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

Similar to how 'Abolish ICE' rang the bell on this huge crisis on immigration, unifying around not taking corporate-PAC money gets everybody to pay attention to big money in politics.

Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college's incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born.

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.