Reform Quotes · Page 19

Welfare reform was a good-faith effort to break the cycle of intergenerational dependence.

— Heather Mac Donald

I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.

— Valerie Harper

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth

— Mike Pence

I don't hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him.

— Rush Limbaugh

I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to…

— Lindsey Graham

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An open, market-oriented, and peaceful Iraq could also advance reform and growth across the entire region.

— Richard N. Haass

Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its…

— Adolf Hitler

On Immigration policy and reform [Republicans] are on the wrong side of the track. ... They would have you believe that if…

— Maxine Waters

And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half,…

— Robert Jay Lifton

“tended to be regarded as either an individual or a racial problem rather than a structural one.”347 There was simply no appetite—or…

— Ganesh Sitaraman

My mom told me to stay away from gangs. But if you're asking me about immigration reform, it must accomplish two objectives:…

— Matt Salmon

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law.…

— Sarah Palin

We invite our friends who hold high positions in the legislative branch of government and state institutions to master the skills of…

— Fethullah Gulen

We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making…

— Bernie Sanders

It was just one year ago that the world saw this new, invigorated United Nations in action as this Council stood fast…

— George H. W. Bush

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

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

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

“Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the…

— Addie Zierman

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

Here's my thinking: Since tax reform only occurs once a generation, let's not tweak what we have and call it a day.

— Kevin Brady

Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill…

— Mike Ross

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.

— Julian Assange

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

— Christiane Amanpour

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

— Anonymous

I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform.

— Barack Obama

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that…

— Barbara Boxer

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and…

— Henry Adams

Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted.

— John M. McHugh

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.

— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our…

— John Goodman

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't…

— Art Buchwald