Reforms Quotes · Page 2

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

— Russell Kirk

The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.

— Ailyn Perez

Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

— Grace Napolitano

Since the start of the Thatcher economic and fiscal reforms the U.K. economy has expanded five-fold.

— Priti Patel

What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

— Stephen Harper

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

— Mario Monti

“The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“If you look at history, some of our greatest leaders used shocking or negative events to push through much-needed reforms that otherwise…

— Anonymous

For too long, our nation has relied on low interest rates rather than undertaking the necessary long term necessary economic reforms.

— Priti Patel

Our reforms to criminal record disclosure will benefit ex-offenders, but there will a broader, more significant payoff for everyone in society.

— David Gauke

We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came…

— Ban Ki-moon

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact…

— Elliot Richardson

I don't think any government is going to go back on the reforms process. There is no government that won't attempt to…

— Kumar Mangalam Birla

“To reason with governments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves…

— Thomas Paine

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair…

— John Mica

For too long, government officials have tinkered with Mexico's economic structure through piecemeal reforms that seek to ensure political stability but that…

— Denise Dresser

We have enacted many economic reforms but also others that have an impact on the overall investment climate. For instance, I launched…

— Petro Poroshenko

...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by…

— J. Stalin

I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and…

— Jose Rizal

Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course,…

— Jose Manuel Barroso

Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at…

— Rick Perlstein

When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we…

— Hillary Clinton

The Blair government perhaps ranks as the best the U.K. has had for 50 years. It cannot match the scale of Attlee's…

— Martin Rees

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

— Narendra Modi

Electoral reforms are necessary if India has to be rid of black money.

— Narendra Modi

In my years in public service, I have advocated for reforms to our unforgiving and vindictive legal system.

— John Fetterman

Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.

— Park Won-soon

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

— Seymour Sarason

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

— Ed Parker

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Those of us who care deeply about programs like Medicare must embrace the need for modest reforms.

— Barack Obama

I'll say the year 2020 will be known as the year of reforms.

— Anurag Thakur

All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms.

— Martin Frost

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

— Andy Hargreaves

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

— Oscar Wilde

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

— Tacitus

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.

— Mario Monti

We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

— John Kline

As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.

— William P. Leahy