Quotes About Reform

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

é straziante la violenza, quando scoppia in una casa: come vedere i vestiti su un albero dopo un'esplosione. puoi essere pronto a vedere la morte, ma non i vestiti sull'albero. E tutto per il fatto che mio padre non riusciva a capire che la natura di Alvin non era mai stata riformabile, nonostante i predicozzi e le minacce che l'affetto gli ispirava: tutto perché lo aveva preso in casa per salvarlo da ciò che semplicemente era nella sua natura diventare.

One prominent spiritual leader insists, "The only way to have a genuine spiritual revival is to have legislative reform." Could he have that backwards?

The message of this book has the power to reform the church, one relationship at a time.

The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now.

How did the Farm Bill achieve overwhelming support from Congress in the face of such widespread calls for reform?...In exchange for leaving support for the large commodity crop farmers in place, House and Senate negotiators packaged support for nearly everyone else into the bill.

Los hombres todos están persuadidos de que la virtud puede ser adquirida. Porque nadie castiga a un hombre malo sólo por ha sido malo, a no ser que se trate de alguna bestia feroz que castigue para saciar su crueldad. Pero el que castiga con razón, castiga, no por las faltas pasadas, porque ya no es posible que lo que ya ha sucedido deje de suceder, sino por las faltas que puedan sobrevenir, para que el culpable no reincida y sirva de ejemplo a los demás su castigo.

We have the worst laws.

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

It is my assignment to change this country.

There has been a change in attitude, though.

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.

As attorney general, I've led a victim-centered office.

Austerity is, devastatingly, not a party political issue.

I want to end austerity.

We do not believe in authoritarian rule.