Reform Quotes · Page 32

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years…

— Patricia Hewitt

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are,…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Joshua Reynolds

Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is…

— Garrison Keillor

I don't think anybody really thinks that one should get rid of the World Bank. Reform is one thing, but getting rid…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most…

— Al Gore

The too-big-to-fail reform project is massive in scope. In my view, it holds real promise. But the project will take years to…

— Jerome Powell

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

— George Orwell

My mom told me to stay away from gangs. But if you're asking me about immigration reform, it must accomplish two objectives:…

— Matt Salmon

We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making…

— Bernie Sanders

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have…

— Rob Portman

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running…

— David Limbaugh

It's going to have to come to a point where politicians in their own political self-interest think it's safe and advantageous to…

— Rick Steves

America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that…

— George Will

...but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle…

— Martin Luther

So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many…

— Edward Luck

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will…

— Natan Sharansky

Hillary Clinton and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've got to pick your choice.

— Tim Kaine

“The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time…

— Charles Edison

“The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid.”

— Paul Collier

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

— Andrew Card

Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.

— Li Keqiang

I think tax reform is the single most important thing we can do in this country to unleash economic energy. It's going…

— Dennis Muilenburg

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take…

— Sojourner Truth

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

— Julian Assange

I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.

— Chris Murphy

The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.

— Ron Johnson

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

— Junichiro Koizumi

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I…

— Anonymous

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some…

— Barack Obama

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform,…

— Scott Walker

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

— Dick Mountjoy

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

— William Lloyd Garrison

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

— Grace Napolitano

I appreciate that Marco Rubio has called for immigration reform but he goes back and forth on it a little bit.

— Kerry Kennedy

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

— Mark Udall

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

— James Fallows

I will appoint an attorney general who will reform the Department of Justice like it was necessary after Watergate.

— Donald Trump

The best thing we can do to secure the future of the global system, trading system, is to redouble the efforts to…

— Roberto Azevedo