#reform

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#best #does #generally #him #indignation

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only. ↗

— Bob Riley

#comes #confidence #down #fight #first

Of all the dangerous ideas that health officials could have embraced while trying to understand why we get fat, they would have been hard-pressed to find one ultimately more damaging than calories-in/calories-out. That it reinforces what appears to be so obvious - obesity as the penalty for gluttony and sloth - is what makes it so alluring. But it's misleading and misconceived on so many levels that it's hard to imagine how it survived unscathed and virtually unchallenged for the last fifty years. It has done incalculable harm. Not only is this thinking at least partly responsible for the ever-growing numbers of obese and overweight in the world - while directing attention away from the real reasons we get fat - but it has served to reinforce the perception that those who get fat have no one to blame but themselves. That eating less invariably fails as a cure for obesity is rarely perceived as the single most important reason to make us question our assumptions, as Hilde Bruch suggested half a century ago. Rather, it is taken as still more evidence that the overweight and obese are incapable of following a diet and eating in moderation. And it put the blame for their physical condition squarely on their behavior, which couldn't be further from the truth. ↗

— Gary Taubes

#conservatism #conservatism-in-the-us #gluttony #health-and-fitness #health-care

There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation. ↗

— Rob McKenna

#around #between #big #biggest #bipartisan

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it. ↗

— William Odom

#beyond #come #context #decided #deterioration

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#fringe #lunatic #movement #reform

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#complacency #education #greatest #greatest obstacle #hope

Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#border #economic #forward #going #homeland

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#does #followed #give #government #iraqi

I always am a firm believer in you compensate people for their job, and so I did give them bonuses. We accomplished a lot in Congress, we passed health care reform. There were threats against their lives; they had a tough two years. They'd forgone any cost-of-living increase or any bonus before. ↗

— John Salazar

#against #always #am #any #before