Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.
We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.
People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.
Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.
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.
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
Politicians really worry about being politically correct.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.