Quotes About Reform

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

We need a politician who hates politics.

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

The first thing I'd do [as a president] is de-regulate about 90-percent of the things that they've got regulation on, OK, including duck hunting. We're way over-regulated on everything.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

If what you're doing isn't working, change it.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.