Quotes About Reform

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

We will reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers, the forgotten people. Workers. We're going to take care of our workers.

We need to fix our legal immigration system.

...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them.

When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious note of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

He urges them to stop believing that they are "conservative" and should therefore tolerate a little the drift into fascism, the better to get tax reform.

If you go on teaching people that life is cheap, and leave them to rot in ghettos and jails, they may one day feel justified in coming back to rob and kill you. Duh!

Only education can empty the workhouses and prisons, the slums and rookeries.

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There is not a single penal institution or reformatory in the United States where men are not tortured "to be made good," by means of the blackjack, the club, the straightjacket, the water-cure, the "humming bird" (an electrical contrivance run along the human body), the solitary, the bullring, and starvation diet. In these institutions his will is broken, his soul degraded, his spirit subdued by the deadly monotony and routine of prison life.

Show them where they go wrong and you will find that they'll reform. But unless they see it, they are stuck with nothing better than their usual opinion as their practical guide.

The only way to reform modern lettering is to abolish it.

If anything ail a man," says Thoreau, "so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even … he forthwith sets about reforming—the world."3