Reform Quotes · Page 3

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will…

— Laozi

I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine…

— John McCain

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and…

— Tony Judt

Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds,…

— Anonymous

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax;…

— Paul Ryan

The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support…

— Sigmar Gabriel

He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I'm absolutely against privatizing the V.A. And I am going do everything I can to build on the reforms that Senator Sanders…

— Hillary Clinton

I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was…

— Jim DeMint

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

— Rand Paul

This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood…

— Michele Bachmann

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

— Thomas Carlyle

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Jack Kingston

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

— Roger Zelazny

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

— Anonymous

I believe in health care reform. I don't believe in the way this bill was passed.

— Joe Manchin

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

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

— Chen Shui-bian

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

— George Papandreou

I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in…

— Gary Locke

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

— Wendell Berry

Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they…

— Daniel Kammen

The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not…

— S. T. Joshi

Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or…

— Aaron Klein