Quotes About Reform

I have great pride in taking Dick and Jane out of most school libraries. That is my greatest satisfaction.

Joynes was careful to maintain the notion of separate spheres, even as he advocated significant change. A reformed system of women's schooling "should be based upon the idea that woman is woman, and not man-nor a butterfly," neither man's "plaything nor his rival.

If it's true that bankers are paid too much, in other words, the solution is not to get into the messy business of regulating individual pay—as indeed the financial industry itself has argued. Instead, it is to make banking less profitable overall,

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president.

Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

Writing in 1837, one Michigan reformer called the nation's rate of immigration "the boldest experiment upon the stability of government ever made in the annals of time.

The 1880 census had taken eight years to tabulate. But in 1890, the Census Bureau's Herman Hollerith, an engineer from Buffalo, New York, who'd taught mechanical engineering at MIT, introduced a reform that allowed for the census to be tallied in just a year.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

even if it meant early release of a few low-level felons or minor mental defectives

Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100 000 to $200 000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

Verizon Communications' general counsel Randal Milch in a blog, while applauding proposals to end Section 215 (of the PATRIOT Act) bulk collection, argued that "the reformed collection process should not require companies to store data for longer than, or in formats that differ from, what they already do for business purposes.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.