Quotes About Reform

hypocritical laws that made a woman pay for a man's crime. Why should women "receive the punishment due to the vices of so large a portion of the rest"?

Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!

There is only one real purpose of a real revolution: To move forward!

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

I don't favor institutional capital punishment

He wanted to remove silent letters and reform the whole business. He sent his scheme to his friend May Stevenson in a letter beginning: 'Diir Frind' but May replied that she could 'si meni inkanviiniensis az vel az difikylties'. That stopped it.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

As part of the GOP old guard, I joined a 12 step program to wean myself from politics as usual within the Party.

reeducating and "re-righting" history

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

If you want to get the best people to run for office, weve got to make the rules easier, and simpler, and more understandable to get on the ballot.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City that's hard enough!

Government is dysfunctional.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

The fundamental problem in the U.S. health care system is that the structure of health care delivery is broken. This is what all the data about rising costs and alarming quality are telling us. And the structure of health care delivery is broken because competition is broken. All of the well-intended reform movements have failed because they did not address the underlying nature of competition.

The only way to truly reform health care is to reform the nature of competition itself.

Mandatory measurement and reporting of results is perhaps the single most important step in reforming the health care system.

The revolutionary cries of Black Lives Matter rest upon a simple yet poignant foundation: that Black lives, which haven't mattered, should matter, and that we must reform the criminal justice system, greatly change if not abolish the police, and grapple with systemic racism.

In a speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama reiterated a promise that he has made repeatedly since the 2008 presidential campaign: No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

Isn't it time to get rid of crapitalism? Isn't it time for a rational, sane world where the people are actually in charge, and the smartest people run everything on behalf of the Commonwealth?

Michael G. Santos

Michael G. Santos

Michael G. Santos