Reform Quotes · Page 2

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

— Grover Norquist

Reform is not a one-night stand.

— John Bolton

We cannot reform our forefathers.

— George Eliot

We will have health care reform in America.

— Dick Durbin

Reform is a process, and not an event.

— Kofi Annan

True repentance also involves reform.

— Hosea Ballou

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

— Mason Cooley

Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy.

— Scott Peters

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

— Oscar Wilde

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

— Tucker Carlson

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

— Rahm Emanuel

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

— Narendra Modi

Reform the House of Lords by all means, but not through a second elected chamber.

— Lindsay Hoyle

Electoral reforms are necessary if India has to be rid of black money.

— Narendra Modi

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

— Oscar Wilde

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

— Sheryl Sandberg

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which…

— John Bright

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic…

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

— Mencius

There's a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who's feeding this country today, why this…

— Diego Luna

“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

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each…

— Thomas Adams

At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a…

— Pete Hegseth

Tax reform is the legislative challenge of a generation for America. It hasn't been accomplished since 1986, when President Reagan and Congress…

— Kevin Brady

The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and…

— Herman Melville

The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however…

— John Stott

I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms.…

— Paul Keating

I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because…

— Peter Hain

But it is a worry that there have been so many delays in the reform of China's state-owned enterprises. We all know…

— Zhang Xin

It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review…

— Rick Perlstein

What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to…

— George W. Bush

Ted Cruz said he wanted to find a compromise. Ted Cruz said he wanted to bring 11 million people out of the…

— Marco Rubio

“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a…

— Kamand Kojouri

In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child…

— Noam Chomsky

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It…

— Anatole France

If you want to really sort of quantify the dereliction of the Republican establishment, those two facts are the most important two…

— Chris Hayes

I think, again, the overall intellectual structure of the speech is very much consistent with what Donald Trump has been saying on…

— Avik Roy