“There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform. — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
One such issue that Arkansans want action taken on is campaign finance reform. And this is a problem that is not really… — Conner Eldridge Copy Share Image
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans. — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as… — Michael Harrington Copy Share Image
The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We can't go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. We cannot… — John McCain Copy Share Image