Reform Quotes · Page 53

We`re not going to end the Medicaid. We`re going to give the governors more control and leeway to bring innovative reforms to…

— Paul Ryan

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st…

— Barack Obama

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

— Jay Rockefeller

Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make…

— Warren Beatty

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

— Henry Louis Gates

For me to come in as the mayor already recognizing some of the problems that we were facing and also having put…

— Catherine E. Pugh

In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models…

— Rick Perlstein

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to…

— Nick Clegg

On the strength of strong public support, I will have (the postal reform bills) passed within this session,

— Junichiro Koizumi

A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

— Russell B. Long

We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage,…

— Winifred Holtby

The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make…

— Barack Obama

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is…

— Thomas Merton

The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward…

— Michelle Alexander

I think, overall, India is today on the move. The economic reforms that our salvation lies in - operating an open society,…

— Manmohan Singh

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they…

— Henry David Thoreau

[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out…

— Noam Chomsky

Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was…

— J. C. Watts

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

Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope…

— Harriet Martineau

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Health reform should be open and transparent.

— Charles Boustany

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

— James Surowiecki

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid,…

— Robert Peel