Reform Quotes · Page 16

If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.

— Jack Kingston

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

— Cameron Russell

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

— Anonymous

I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform.

— Barack Obama

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

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

— Christiane Amanpour

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.

— Julian Assange

If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we…

— Louis Farrakhan

If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.

— Shuji Nakamura

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear…

— Todd Tiahrt

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of…

— Pete Sessions

In addition to encouraging us to participate in narratives of "deservingness" that cast large parts of our constituencies as "undeserving," legal reform…

— Dean Spade

Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform,…

— Tony Blair

The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as…

— Juan Williams

I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a…

— Rand Paul

There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this…

— Rob McKenna

The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of…

— Dave Barry

My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It…

— Robert M

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they…

— Henry David Thoreau

The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of…

— Abigail Scott Duniway

This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on…

— Joseph John Thomson

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited…

— George MacDonald

I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail…

— Howard Zinn

“... the transition from lost to found is never an easy one. It is never easy to be a prodigal son --…

— Robert L. Short

Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so…

— Dick Morris

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

— Ferdinand Mount

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

— Tony Abbott

We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.

— David Harsanyi

Instead of working to undo POTUS exec action, we need to workcollaboratively to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.

— Mazie Hirono

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness…

— Lew Wallace

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain…

— Charles Stross

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with…

— Ron Paul

I don't think it was progressive to vote to give gun makers and sellers immunity. I don't think it was progressive to…

— Hillary Clinton

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter.…

— John Kasich

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

— James Surowiecki

“Tax reform may present another opportunity to address these issues and perhaps improve both the tax system and the health care system…

— Bruce Bartlett

There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.

— Jamal Khashoggi

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is…

— Richard Holbrooke