Reform Quotes

There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

I talk about the three R's, that jobs equals three R's: Repeal Obamacare. Reform our tax-and-spend policies to make us the most competitive in the world. And relight America with American energy.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day

With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.

Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.

You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I'll let him explain why.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass.

He who reforms, God assists.

I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.

Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.

I wouldn't call it "police reform," but I would say that police procedure enhancement could be helpful - these police shootings are absolutely horrible.

The good news is that we really do think that ... on the immigration issue, that we will, before summer, have comprehensive immigration reform.

A major institutional reform is the move away from merely planning, to transforming India. The setting up of NITI Aayog, is a step in this direction.

Electoral reforms are necessary if India has to be rid of black money.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament.

Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.

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.

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement