Reform Quotes

Reform Quote of the day

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.

Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

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.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.

If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we believe, to build a better world.

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible.

Reform is a process, and not an event.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.

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.