Reform Quotes · Page 25

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

— Gloria Steinem

I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I…

— Carl Panzram

Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.

— David Limbaugh

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

— George Papandreou

Scott Walker's campaign slogan is 'Reform. Growth. Safety.' Which is actually similar to Donald Trump's new slogan: 'Mexico. Money. Crazy.'

— Jimmy Fallon

“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just…

— Terry Pratchett

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community…

— Mel Carnahan

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough…

— Lindsey Graham

Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute…

— Philip K. Howard

The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing…

— Ron Fournier

The lobbyists, the special interests, the special pleaders, if you will, the super PACs the billionaires, these people are apoplectic about the…

— Roger Stone

Health care is a far more serious, immediate and destructive problem than social security. . . . The upfront investment needed to…

— Henry Simmons

Another reform, involves new screening tests for all applicants that include, and this is so important, especially if you get the right…

— Donald Trump

Neave demonstrated that social reform is not a battle between the haves and the have-nots. It is about how change can only…

— Kemi Badenoch

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly…

— Aldous Huxley

Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal…

— Russell Pearce

Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often…

— Charles Krauthammer

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but…

— Doug Bandow

“A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands…

— Wendell Berry

“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, —…

— Virchand Gandhi

I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to…

— Joseph Pulitzer

The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made…

— Henry David Thoreau

On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a…

— Jean Chretien

I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.

— Jim McGovern

I am not arguing that we should never use legal reform as a tactic. Instead, I argue that it should not be…

— Dean Spade

Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn't come to that! But it might.

— Timothy McVeigh

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

— Jaime Herrera Beutler

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his…

— Joe Lieberman

Health reform is, in some ways, a microcosm to everything that's right about Washington and everything that's wrong about it.

— Daniel Pfeiffer

It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our…

— David Malpass

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

— Carlos Mesa

Repression and intimidation are not - and never should be - the acceptable companions of reform.

— Jamal Khashoggi

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

— Henry David Thoreau

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

— Anonymous

Tax reform advocates generally agree that a fair code shouldn't single out certain groups for favorable treatment at the expense of others.

— James B. Stewart

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep…

— Anonymous

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the…

— Carl Bernstein