Quotes About Reform

Demoralized by their inability to change their station in life, they must accept that the meaning of politics lies not in institutional reform but in daily emotion. They must stop thinking about a better future for themselves, their friends, and their families, and prefer the constant invocation of a proud past. At the top and throughout society, material inequality creates the experiences and the sentiments that can be transformed into a politics of eternity.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

Police discipline certainly does occur; it just does not often lead to change.

The majority of our criminals that we lock up are non-violent offenders.

We shouldn't try to turn policemen into social workers, but they should at least understand that not all offenders belong in jail.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

Do I acknowledge that there are some law enforcement officers that abuse their job? Yes.

One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.

I think the more we see more officers holding each other accountable, the more we will see people trust cops in this country.

What happened to George Floyd is an abomination. Four Minneapolis policemen used excessive force to cause his death in what appears to be a tragically cavalier fashion. All four officers involved should be held fully accountable and incarcerated for their crimes.

India needs honest bureaucrats; most officers in the system are corrupt.

For one thing, I would like to see some new faces in all sports associations. Often you have the same people controlling a sport. They may change their designations or they may be controlling affairs from behind the curtain even when they don't have any role officially.

In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.

It's unequivocal: everyplace I go, the one line I can use in a speech that I know will get applause is when I say it's time for a new generation of leadership in our party.

Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

The country is moving to a more open society.

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.