Reform Quotes · Page 12

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

— Elizabeth Smart

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

— Lincoln Steffens

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

— Earl Browder

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

— Ashraf Ghani

France's economy is stagnant, statist, and uncompetitive and urgently needs reform.

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

— Henry David Thoreau

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

— Lech Walesa

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

— Will Rogers

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

— Andrew Lansley

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

— William Kirby

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

— Wyndham Lewis

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

— Kushal Pal Singh

Reform Jews are the children of Conservative Jews, or as they are sometimes known, Christians with curlier hair.

— Jon Stewart

While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working…

— Kshama Sawant

Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what…

— Robert Fritz

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

— Luis Gutierrez

Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make…

— Warren Beatty

Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been…

— Arundhati Roy

What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say…

— Christina Romer

I think, overall, India is today on the move. The economic reforms that our salvation lies in - operating an open society,…

— Manmohan Singh

It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public…

— Jerrold Nadler

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy,…

— Bashar al-Assad

I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we…

— Marietta Holley

“Your mental make-ups are the contents of your everyday thinking; they carry a charge that can either transform, reform or destroy you.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to…

— George W. Bush

…the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place…

— Peter Costello

House GOP Leader John Boehner on Monday rightly sounded the alarm over billions in stimulus tax dollars that could potentially go to…

— Michelle Malkin

“In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian imperial heir, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Do you know the…

— Loren D. Estleman

“The Church wishes, for example, to apply Rosmini's invitation to 'hear loftily of God' with worthy liturgical celebrations, stripping the concept of…

— Pope John Paul I

The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign…

— Walter E. Williams

The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such…

— Jean Guitton

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

— Phil Bredesen

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

— Lu Xun

Nothing says 'economic growth' like fundamental tax reform.

— Jeb Hensarling

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

— Jeffrey Sachs

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

— Paul Butterfield

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

— Michael J. Schmoker

“The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.”

— David Lincoln

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.

— Charles Schumer