Reform Quotes

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

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

Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

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!

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.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

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

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

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.

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

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

Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

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.

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.

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.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

I will continue to decisively promote reforms that will promote growth, and at the same time, I will continue to negotiate hard in order to avoid any reforms that would undermine growth.

I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants are speaking up.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine that are nearby. It's just a reality.

I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.