I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.
No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.
You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
I remain deeply interested in the transformation of the American healthcare system to improve quality and contain costs.
I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.
If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.
We have all the numbers we need to turn this system on its head.
I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.
I always said this and the people think it's a cute answer, but I say we have always been in the system and that's why we fight because we don't like the system. We are trying to transform it.
In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.
Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.
States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.
Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.
It takes time to change a system and to change a mindset.
