Reform Quotes · Page 34

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

— Anonymous

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially…

— Henry David Thoreau

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

— Carlos Mesa

Repression and intimidation are not - and never should be - the acceptable companions of reform.

— Jamal Khashoggi

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the…

— Carl Bernstein

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep…

— Anonymous

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough…

— Lindsey Graham

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected…

— John Hutton

Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite…

— Swami Vivekananda

I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file.…

— E. J. Dionne

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts…

— Anonymous

If we value children and family, there's a great need for change, and we should try immigration reform - create a path…

— Diane Guerrero

While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan…

— Shinzo Abe

Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and…

— Dorothea Dix

The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing…

— Ron Fournier

“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just…

— Terry Pratchett

Scott Walker's campaign slogan is 'Reform. Growth. Safety.' Which is actually similar to Donald Trump's new slogan: 'Mexico. Money. Crazy.'

— Jimmy Fallon

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community…

— Mel Carnahan

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

— Jaime Herrera Beutler

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his…

— Joe Lieberman

I am not arguing that we should never use legal reform as a tactic. Instead, I argue that it should not be…

— Dean Spade

Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn't come to that! But it might.

— Timothy McVeigh

Health reform is, in some ways, a microcosm to everything that's right about Washington and everything that's wrong about it.

— Daniel Pfeiffer

It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our…

— David Malpass

I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.

— Jim McGovern

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

— Gloria Steinem

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

— Donald L. Carcieri

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

— Jo Ann Davis

“President Obama missed a golden opportunity at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm to reform the utility and solar power industries into much…

— Steven Magee

Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform.

— Jenna Wortham

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

— George Papandreou

Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.

— David Limbaugh

I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I…

— Carl Panzram

The lobbyists, the special interests, the special pleaders, if you will, the super PACs the billionaires, these people are apoplectic about the…

— Roger Stone

I've been able to stretch myself, covering policy, looking at tax reform, looking at the broader economy [being at Fox]. It's no…

— Maria Bartiromo

Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute…

— Philip K. Howard

It is important to remember the purpose of health care reform: to make sure Americans have access to quality, affordable health care…

— Bill Foster

Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking;…

— Immanuel Kant