Reform Quotes · Page 3

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

— Fareed Zakaria

What we need is fundamental tax reform.

— Rob Portman

Tax reform should happen rather quickly.

— Donald Trump

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

— George H. W. Bush

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

— Deng Xiaoping

Reform is born of need, not pity.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

— Thomas Carlyle

I believe in health care reform.

— Joe Manchin

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

— Mario Monti

We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.

— Wu Yi

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

— Robert Scheer

For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

— Barbara Tuchman

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

— Nick Clegg

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

— Max Baucus

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.

— William Cowper

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

— Anonymous

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

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform…

— Peter the Great

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out…

— Gore Vidal

I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are…

— Bob Menendez

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Welfare reform passed in the 90s worked because states were given maximum authority along with adequate funding. This model can work for…

— Kim Reynolds

Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending…

— Marcia Angell

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left…

— Margaret Case Harriman

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its…

— Robert Jay Lifton

A major part of the conservative plans to reform Medicaid turn on the assumption that states will be better able to manage…

— Scott Gottlieb

The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we…

— Herman Wouk

These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that.…

— George Weigel

“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as…

— G.K. Chesterton

The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens…

— William J. Clinton

We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a…

— Lord Hailsham

There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into…

— Walter Karp

What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into…

— Salman Rushdie

“Furthermore, the managerial ethos of parliamentary reformism is in direct tension with important values associated with the dialogue that attends our system…

— Thomas O. Sargentich