Quotes About Reform

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

So long as the customary sphere is not deethnicized as part of a broader reform, deracialization of the civic sphere will only lead to a spillover--even to an explosion--of ethnic conflict in the civic realm.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

nos enfrentamos a un eclipse de nuestra vida católica tradicional como fuerza visible con algún nivel de eficacia. También opino, eminencia, que el papa debe considerar la estructura tradicional de su Iglesia como algo inútil y pasado de moda, puesto que permite su decadencia. Si ésa no es su idea, no hay otra forma de comprenderlo que como totalmente aberrante y negligente de su responsabilidad pontificia como papa.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

Si queremos modernizar al país, tenemos que comenzar por modernizar nuestra política

Boniface urged the king to destroy the graven images he and his people were currently worshipping.

Counter-Reformation, or whatever it be called, did attempt to save the Church from the scandals of the past, and to a certain extent succeeded. But it did so by increased centralisation, and a hardening of temper, alien from earlier movements of reform.

The events of 1848 and 1849 are interpreted and measured through the lens of the European option of the monolithic nation-state, which is curious since the essence of the Canadian reform movement that came to power in 1848 was the idea of a bilingual state, built on immigration, multiple religions and regional differences. In other words, a non-monolithic, non-European model.

the Cubs ought to have been demoted to the minor leagues after they went two centuries without a World Series championship.

Hazel grew up - did four years in grammar school, four years in reform school, and didn't learn a thing in either place. Reform schools are supposed to teach viciousness and criminality but Hazel didn't pay enough attention.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

One can't quit working to better the world just because the world is old and set in its ways. The enormity of a job is no reason not to do the job.

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'