Quotes About Reform

In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.

There are far too many ineffective teachers and, in particular, far too many truly terrible teachers who are harming children and poisoning the system.

The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You've got people on the one side saying, 'We need to be holding our police accountable.' And you've got a lot of people who support the police saying they're being 'unfairly vilified.'

We want the police to be young, educated, and have a completely different outlook.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

I myself have been scrutinized by militarized police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.

There is no police brutality.

Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost.

I've been learning about defunding our investment in police force mentality, and reinvesting in, what do young people need? What do people who get involved in drugs need, what do families need outside of money to take care of their families?

Accountability for police officers should be an expectation, not an aberration.

We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.

There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.

We have police officers who may devalue the life of Black people. And that's what we have to change.

The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do.

I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.

Our justice system allows district attorneys to be charged with the great responsibility of prosecuting the very same police officers they work side-by-side with every day and whose union support they seek when running for reelection.

The formerly incarcerated - returning citizens - often face a cruel irony in America. Having paid their debt to society, too many are banned from the ballot box that could help them dismantle policies that essentially extend their sentences.

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

What I do know is that liberal Democrat policies in our big cities are not helping anybody, especially our big cities.

We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.