Reform Quotes · Page 5

Every reformation ruins somebody.

— Amelia B. Edwards

The reform of government needs to continue.

— Jim Nussle

Reform cannot be cosmetic.

— Sushma Swaraj

I do believe the E.U. needs reform.

— Rachel Reeves

Remorse begets reform.

— William Cowper

Reform is not a period of retreat.

— David Remnick

Truth reforms as well as informs.

— William Jenkyn

Marriage is not a reform school.

— Ann Landers

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

— Mario Monti

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

— Max Baucus

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

— Nick Clegg

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

— William Cowper

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

— Frantz Fanon

I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the…

— Jack Kingston

“Our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.”

— David Edward Goldberg

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

— Joan Lunden

People understand that any major reform to pensions is likely to create losers as well as winners.

— Angela Rayner

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest…

— Oscar Wilde

Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to…

— Pramila Jayapal

“Helpers in every corner, helpers in every hood. That's how we'll make the move, to reform from rude.”

— Abhijit Naskar

He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with…

— Timothy Noah

I support health care reform in this country, but the current bills we have before us are too big, too costly, and…

— Mike Ross

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of…

— Andrei Sakharov

In 2006, I appeared before a House subcommittee considering real estate reform. It was like visiting the capital for the 'Hunger Games'…

— Glenn Kelman

I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a…

— Daisaku Ikeda

It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we…

— Pema Chodron

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

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

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

The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“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