Reform Quotes · Page 15

When we were actually in the Keating reform era, the Business Council was of no help.

— Paul Keating

“There's precious little reform in the human race.”

— Stephen King

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

— Oscar Wilde

A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.

— Richard Shelby

I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform.

— Hillary Clinton

I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

— Mo Udall

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

— Valerie Jarrett

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all…

— Jeb Hensarling

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

— Mariano Rajoy

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

— Valerie Jarrett

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

— Lucas Papademos

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

— Martin H. Fischer

“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than…

— Kate Millett

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

— Laura Miller

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.'…

— Paul Ryan

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government -…

— Muqtada al Sadr

The budget caps were busted, mightily so. And we are reviewing with people like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some…

— George W. Bush

To get back to the kind of shared prosperity and upward mobility we once considered normal will require another era of fundamental…

— Robert Reich

As the head of the government, it is my responsibility to make the overriding political goals and relationships more clear. Part of…

— Angela Merkel

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform…

— George Bernard Shaw

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul…

— Ron Wyden

We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket…

— Molly Ivins

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be…

— Ron Wyden

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree…

— Henry Giroux

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could…

— Bernard Bailyn

This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps…

— Milton Mayer

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

We need to review the process for the election of Speaker. We've got to reform Question Time, which is really a waste…

— Richard Di Natale

There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution.…

— Cynthia Kauffman

The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital…

— David Blankenhorn

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

— Edmund Burke

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We have to reform how European football works.

— Joan Laporta

[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms.

— Sylvia Poggioli

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

— Henry David Thoreau

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

— Michael Bennet

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Do not try to reform or teach anyone, it is enough by changing yourself.

— Anonymous