Reform Quotes · Page 15

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

— Michel de Montaigne

The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

— Diane Ravitch

I'm not a fan of the #DeleteFacebook campaign. I think that they can reform.

— Brittany Kaiser

We have to do immigration reform while the pro-deportation crew is still reeling.

— Hillary Clinton

There is no history of how bad became better.

— Henry David Thoreau

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

— Tacitus

Let's get immigration reform done this year. Let's get it done. It's time.

— Barack Obama

We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is…

— Henry Paulson

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

— Bashar al-Assad

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

— Susan B. Anthony

Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone…

— S.E. Cupp

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

— Gore Vidal

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

— Jack Kingston

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is…

— Bernie Sanders

In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of…

— Alison Weir

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics.…

— Nick Clegg

I have been for border security for years. I voted for border security in the United States Senate. And my comprehensive immigration…

— Hillary Clinton

We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying,…

— Rand Paul

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war…

— Benjamin Disraeli

On the subject of money and politics and the rest, I have a DARE: Disclose who are these people; Amend the Constitution…

— Nancy Pelosi

For the states that take the lead on reform - asset recycling, deregulation, service innovation - the Federal Government could step back,…

— Gladys Berejiklian

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on…

— Barack Obama

I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for…

— Edward Snowden

When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to…

— Bette Midler

After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that…

— John Lennon

Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom…

— Harry Browne

I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in…

— Loretta Chase

The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation.…

— Arundhati Roy

“The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material…

— G.K. Chesterton

This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.

— Dan Rostenkowski

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

In America, we will have secure borders, but we'll also have reform.

— Hillary Clinton

To me, every decision needn't be a 'big-bang' reform but a signal of proactive decision-making and removal of red tape and bureaucracy.

— Anand Mahindra

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We…

— Sander Levin

There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

— Mike Quigley

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply…

— David Blunkett

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the…

— Wilkie Collins