Systemic Overhaul Quotes

The revolution starts now.

One cannot pretend that the sending of a dozen men to a country will lead to a revolution.

I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.

...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order.

Wanting to reform everything is the same thing as wanting to destroy everything.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all

One thing, change, is what everyone says. The question is, what type of change? What's the right change to produce a different outcome for the people left behind by globalization?

The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

I don't want to negotiate with the power brokers in Washington; I want to tear them down.

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.

If you give me carte blanche for any destruction and any revolutionary transformations, if that is what you want, then for God's sake, we will do it. The issue is not me: the issue is society.

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.