Quotes About Reform

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

February 2018, the House passed the Congressional Accountability Reform Act, based on that ME TOO Congress Act.

PETER THE GREAT.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

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Bringing about change in an abuser generally requires four elements: (1) consequences, (2) education, (3) confrontation, and (4) accountability.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter—and to write in the books of law.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law.

One of his most remarkable reforms is to state unequivocally that religion should not oppose itself to science. "Where Buddhist teachings contradict science, science should prevail," he has said.

even a pope who tried to free the Church from feudalism could not free his own mind or government from feudal methods.

When he took charge of the Air Corps in 1938, it was in pitiful shape—a pale shadow of the mighty Luftwaffe or Britain's Royal Air Force. Arnold himself called his service "practically nonexistent." Ranked twentieth in size among the world's air forces and still under Army control, it had a few hundred combat planes, many of them obsolete, and fewer than nineteen thousand officers and enlisted men.

As Mrs. Carter in another context observed, there are adequate financial resources available to fund adequate mental health if we simply invest in the right kinds of programs—the ones that we know work—rather than squandering millions and millions of dollars and lives in jails and prisons.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

He initiated a campaign to drenare la palude ("drain the swamp") by firing more than 35,000 civil servants.

He initiated a campaign to drenare la palude ("drain the swamp")

In the U.S. there are over two million people locked up, and it takes one million employees and $80 billion in tax dollars to take care of them.

One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot.

If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable.

as well as depressing, but each day I feel like I'm making a small difference. We walked a kid out of prison last week. His parents were waiting by the gate, and everyone was in tears, including me. FYI—one

They, the lawmakers, were hoodwinked by the insurance companies who are still funding the national tort reform movement, a political crusade that has been wildly successful.

movement to reform the practice of solitary confinement was struggling to gain momentum. Said movement had not made it to Florida.

You ever met anyone who's served time in Parchman prison?" "Yes sir. Met a guy in Angola who served time there." "I'm sure he was happy to be out of there." "Yes sir. Said it's the worst place in the country.

If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable. The