Quotes About Reform

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the politics, then we'll fix the rest.

We have to play by different rules.

If voting changed anything they'd abolish it.

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Among the defects of the bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

What's good for reform is bad for the reformers

I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed, remember, after a night in a bawdy house. You go about collecting street urchins and letting inebriated vagabonds kiss you, and then you get into brawls in pawnshops. You are probably past all redemption, but I'm going to reform you anyhow. If you behave yourself, perhaps I'll let you reform me on occasion, but I make no promises.

Our wombs are no place for poisons. Our babies have the right to be born toxic-free, it's time for a complete overhaul of the current system.

The number of children in foster care right now is the highest it's ever been. As it encouraged adoption, ASFA made it easier than ever to take children from their parents just because those parents are poor." --Richard Wexler, Exec. Director, National Coalition Child Protection Reform.

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists," as one feminist explained. Feminists rejected the idea of women as reformers whose moral authority came from their differentness from men—women were supposedly, by nature, more tender and loving and chaste and pure—and advocated instead women's full and equal participation in politics, work, and the arts, on the grounds that women were in every way equal to men.

since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. And so, too, this book

Instead of imposing rigid pro-choice and pro-life political litmus tests, why not work together on teen pregnancy, adoption reform, and real alternatives for women backed into dangerous and lonely corners?

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

Crime is a product of social excess.

The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.

Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.

Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.

A massive immigration bill has no chance of becoming law.

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.