The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves
- George Bernard ShawAt twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can`t.
- Clarence DarrowHe who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots
- Johann Kaspar LavaterIt's a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate turned its back on a golden opportunity today.
- Senator John Kerry