Reform Quotes · Page 30

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on…

— Bill McCollum

Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

— Mitt Romney

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

— Paul Krugman

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

— Charles Simmons

The good news is that we really do think that ... on the immigration issue, that we will, before summer, have comprehensive…

— Nancy Pelosi

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better…

— John Mica

Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control…

— Temple Grandin

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I have been for border security for years. I voted for border security in the United States Senate. And my comprehensive immigration…

— Hillary Clinton

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable;…

— Robert Farrar Capon

In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of…

— Alison Weir

We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came…

— Ban Ki-moon

I'm absolutely against privatizing the V.A. And I am going do everything I can to build on the reforms that Senator Sanders…

— Hillary Clinton

If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the…

— Charlie Norwood

People would like to see peace and stability, and that is why we have had engagement with the ethnic armed groups. That's…

— Thein Sein

I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in…

— Loretta Chase

“The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material…

— G.K. Chesterton

The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation.…

— Arundhati Roy

The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of…

— Abigail Scott Duniway

I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail…

— Howard Zinn

“... the transition from lost to found is never an easy one. It is never easy to be a prodigal son --…

— Robert L. Short

This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on…

— Joseph John Thomson

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited…

— George MacDonald

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

— Seymour Sarason

Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT…

— Raheem Jarbo

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our…

— Mario Draghi

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the…

— Steve Israel

Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.

— Ken Cuccinelli

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

— Janio Quadros

Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance…

— Dave Reichert

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…

— Bertrand Russell

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

— Peter Mandelson

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our…

— Jesse Helms

On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice…

— Edward de Bono

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending…

— Barack Obama

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

— Ellen Glasgow

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

— Mae West

The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.

— Cyril Ramaphosa