Reform Quotes
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One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. (Quote by - Thomas Brackett Reed)
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before. (Quote by - Art Buchwald)
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Reform is China's second revolution. (Quote by - Deng Xiaoping)
It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth. (Quote by - Mike Pence)
There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act. (Quote by - Grace Napolitano)
I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform. (Quote by - Judy Biggert)
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought. (Quote by - Clara Zetkin)
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
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. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts. (Quote by - Stephen F. Lynch)
Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself. (Quote by - John Hutton)
I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour (Quote by - Peter Hain)
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. (Quote by - Charles Bukowski)
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way. (Quote by - Michel Montaigne)
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it. (Quote by - Herman Cain)
A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform. (Quote by - Russell B. Long)
The hole and the patch should be commensurate. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)
My desolation does begin to make A better life. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform. (Quote by - Robert Scheer)
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet. (Quote by - Wu Yi)
I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform. (Quote by - Jack Kingston)
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. (Quote by - Lionel Blue)
Reforms should begin at home and stay there. (Quote by - Anonymous)
To-morrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. (Quote by - Aulus Persius Flaccus)
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change. (Quote by - Abdallah II)
The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you. (Quote by - Natan Sharansky)
I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago. (Quote by - John Bright)
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism. (Quote by - Jinato Hu)
First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)
I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military. (Quote by - Robert Jay Lifton)
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment. (Quote by - Wendell Willkie)
If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China. (Quote by - Gary Locke)
The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN. (Quote by - Jesse Helms)
I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. (Quote by - John Burns)
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge. (Quote by - Ben Nelson)
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing. (Quote by - Ferdinand Mount)
The reform of government needs to continue. (Quote by - Jim Nussle)
History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long. (Quote by - Christopher Bond)
I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill. (Quote by - Don Nickles)
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall. (Quote by - Laura Miller)
Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president. (Quote by - James T. Walsh)
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Reform, that we may preserve. (Quote by - Thomas B. Macaulay)
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying. (Quote by - Alexander Herzen)
But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society. (Quote by - Kim Dae Jung)
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. (Quote by - John Negroponte)
If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform. (Quote by - Mary Wilson Little)
Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted. (Quote by - John M. McHugh)
Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change. (Quote by - James A. Leach)
Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' (Quote by - Russell B. Long)
Reform is born of need, not pity. (Quote by - Rebecca H. Davis)
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters. (Quote by - Robert McChesney)
We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure. (Quote by - Wu Yi)
A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat. (Quote by - Mayor Jimmy Walker)
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. (Quote by - Susan B. Anthony)
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform. (Quote by - Dave Reichert)
Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good? (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All reformers are bachelors. (Quote by - George A. Moore)
I'm not even sure I'd go into a reformed House of Lords. But let's put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride. (Quote by - Neil Kinnock)
The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform. (Quote by - Earl Browder)
The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. (Quote by - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers. (Quote by - John T. Walton)
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past. (Quote by - Charles Edison)
I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. (Quote by - Norman Douglas)
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly (Quote by - Anne Swetchine)
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. (Quote by - Elizabeth Fry)
We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path. (Quote by - Warren Christopher)
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. (Quote by - Diane Ravitch)
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district. (Quote by - Jerry Weller)
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueller it is the sooner it will be over. (Quote by - William Sherman)
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! (Quote by - Thomas B. Macaulay)
Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request. (Quote by - Kit Bond)
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform. (Quote by - Jeffrey Sachs)
An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what. (Quote by - Thomas B. Read)
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. (Quote by - Lydia M. Child)
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. (Quote by - Mort Sahl)
Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws. (Quote by - John Shadegg)
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. (Quote by - Billy Sunday)
The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor. (Quote by - Frank Putnam)
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care. (Quote by - Lincoln Chafee)
There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females. (Quote by - Ezra Cornell)
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. (Quote by - Christiane Amanpour)
It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform. (Quote by - Bob Inglis)
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative. (Quote by - John Linder)
Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. (Quote by - James Cardinal Gibbons)
Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. (Quote by - John B. S. Haldane)
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children. (Quote by - John Goodman)
To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)
We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform. (Quote by - Rodrigo Rato)
The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform. (Quote by - Rahm Emanuel)
I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries. (Quote by - DeForest Soaries)
Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much. (Quote by - EugFne Delacroix)
A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform. (Quote by - Jim Wallis)
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. (Quote by - Alexis De Tocqueville)
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain. (Quote by - Peter Mandelson)
BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community. (Quote by - William P. Leahy)
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. (Quote by - Chuck Hagel)
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. (Quote by - William Cowper)
The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service. (Quote by - Donald L. Carcieri)
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
At 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 know he can't. (Quote by - Rodney Dangerfield)
We are reformers in Spring and Summer; in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. (Quote by - Ted Stevens)
The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting. (Quote by - William Kirby)
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. (Quote by - Robert McChesney)
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. (Quote by - Robert M. Hutchins)
If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done. (Quote by - Lord Melbourne)
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system. (Quote by - Johnny Isakson)
In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared. (Quote by - Zhu Rongji)
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. (Quote by - Tom Daschle)
There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system. (Quote by - Joschka Fischer)
We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena. (Quote by - Anna Lindh)
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. (Quote by - MoliFre)
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform. (Quote by - Michael McCaul)
To innovate is not to reform. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
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. (Quote by - Bob Riley)
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. (Quote by - Clara Barton)
There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on. (Quote by - Harri Holkeri)
The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men. (Quote by - David Lloyd George)
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for. (Quote by - Mae West)
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. (Quote by - William E. Gladstone)
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform. (Quote by - David Cameron)
We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business. (Quote by - Jim DeMint)
Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism (Quote by - Tony Blair)
Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return. (Quote by - Saki)
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. (Quote by - Andrew Mellon)
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs. (Quote by - Mel Carnahan)
We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform. (Quote by - Chen Shui-bian)
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. (Quote by - H.G. Wells)
The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
There's never a good year for immigration reform - that's why it's dragged on ineffectually for decades. (Quote by - Kenneth E. Scott)
It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment. (Quote by - Jesse Helms)
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws. (Quote by - Marty Meehan)
