Quotes About Reform

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First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

fanatics. Every teacher of work-righteousness is a trouble-maker.

It did not please me, either, that the Christians and the princes were driven, urged, and irritated into attacking the Turk and making war on him, before they amended their own ways and lived like true Christians.

It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.

If Münzer and Carlstadt and their comrades had not been allowed to sneak and creep into other men's houses and parishes, whither they had neither call nor command to go, this whole great calamity would not have happened.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

Give to it the place in our institutions of learning now occupied by scholastic theology and physiology, and it will 142 eradicate sickness and sin in less time than the old systems, devised for subduing them, have required for self-establishment and propagation.

Caesar corrected the error and, for the future, established a year with 365 days, with an extra day inserted at the end of February every four years. This was a far more significant outcome of his visit to Egypt than any dalliance with Cleopatra.

Then as now, the easiest tactic for a government trying to reduce the pension bill was to raise the pension age. At

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

The epic struggle to pass health care reform was at once a shameless betrayal of the public trust of historic proportions and proof that a nation that perceives itself as being divided into red and blue should start paying attention to a third color that rules the day in Washington—a sort of puke-colored politics that puts together deals like this one and succeeds largely through its mastery of the capital city's bureaucracy.

Our prison population, in fact, is now the biggest in the history of human civilization. There are more people in the United States either on parole or in jail today (around 6 million total) than there ever were at any time in Stalin's gulags. For what it's worth, there are also more black men in jail right now than there were in slavery at its peak.

On economics, crime, and welfare, the Clinton presidency offered plenty for conservatives to like. They never forgave him for it.

such is the corruption of nature that the bad are much more likely to debauch the good than the good to reform the bad.

Thus have they committed two great evils, in which they persist, and from which they hate to be reformed; they take away from God's word, and add to his worship.

There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.

On oublierait vite qu'il (le Roi Phillipe le Bel, apres sa mort) avait musele les puissances, maintenu la paix autant qu'il etait possible, reforme les lois, bati des frotresses pour qu'on put semer a l'abri, unifie les provinces, convie les bourgeois a s'assembler pour donner des avis, et vielle en toutes les choses a l'independence de la France.

To get what you want, stop doing what isn't working. - Earl Warren

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.