Quotes about Reform

Sometimes it requires national impetus to deliver real change.

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.

What we need in this country today is leadership which has the courage to call for income tax reform to put the burden where it must be placed, on those who can afford to pay. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

reactionaries.

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man.

The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.

Marriage is not a reform school... Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.

We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligation to speak with Christian advice.

Until they give me opportunity to write about matters that are not-me, the world must go on uninstructed and unreformed, and I can only do my best with the one small subject upon which I am allowed to discourse.

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.

If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.