Quotes About Reform

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.

what can I change so I never have to do this again?

a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society

Wars in the past often accelerated social reform, provided technological benefits, even sparked artistic activity. This one, however, seemed tailor-made to provide none of these positive by-products.

You know, that's what's wrong with us on the public level. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better. Our society is hurtling in free fall toward heaven knows where

H. Nelson Jackson said, "I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home.

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.