Quotes about Reform

Malpractice tort reform can be something as commonsensical as the establishment of medical courts - similar to bankruptcy or admiralty courts - with special judges to make determinations in cases brought by parties claiming injury.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

True, I tore the drapery from the altar; but it was to dress the wounds of the country.

To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.

To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.