Able Quote by Carroll Quigley

“after the Civil War both parties now were controlled by capitalists. They were divided along North-South lines, still hung over with the animosities of…

— Howard Zinn

Only a few years after building a federal system that cleared the way for equal opportunity, Republicans faced a racist and xenophobic backlash against…

— Heather Cox Richardson

There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

During the Civil War, the fledgling Republican Party constructed the nation's first activist government, using taxes to fund social welfare legislation for the first…

— Heather Cox Richardson

For a generation, Republicans have tried to unravel the activist government under which Americans have lived since the 1930s, when Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt…

— Heather Cox Richardson

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

— Bob Riley

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

— John Buchanan Robinson

Republicans controlled the federal government for decades after the Civil War, and their policies funneled wealth upward -- with dire consequences. In 1893, the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“As I wrote in Still Broken, many factors contributed to the failure of past reform efforts.11 They include that paranoid “political culture” rooted in…

— Stephen Davidson

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

— Allen West

In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same…

— Noam Chomsky