Reform Quotes

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution

Every reform was once a private opinion.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

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.

My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.

For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

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.

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

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.

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

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.

On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.

To innovate is not to reform.

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.

Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.

The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

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.

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

Reform, that we may preserve.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Reform is born of need, not pity.

The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

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.

The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.