Reforms Quotes · Page 2

What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

— Stephen Harper

“The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.

— Anand Mahindra

In my years in public service, I have advocated for reforms to our unforgiving and vindictive legal system.

— John Fetterman

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

— Seymour Sarason

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

— Mitt Romney

Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.

— Park Won-soon

Reforms aimed at increasing an economy's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth -…

— Michael Spence

It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate…

— Thomas Pogge

We need to give the prime minister of the day a chance. If he or she cannot win an election, so be…

— Frank Lowy

I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of…

— Steven Pinker

There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need…

— Kenneth Chenault

For too long, government officials have tinkered with Mexico's economic structure through piecemeal reforms that seek to ensure political stability but that…

— Denise Dresser

We have enacted many economic reforms but also others that have an impact on the overall investment climate. For instance, I launched…

— Petro Poroshenko

Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at…

— Rick Perlstein

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its…

— Timothy Geithner

Now the masses of Latin America are electing governments they feel can take forward the democratic reforms of the last 20 years,…

— Carlos Fuentes

It is only natural that people's wishes and aspirations should be realized by the leaders of the region. As this wind of…

— Ban Ki-moon

The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African]…

— Barack Obama

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them.…

— Deborah Meier

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,…

— Vikram Seth

Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural…

— Raghuram Rajan

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole…

— Scott Brown

The Umbrella Movement was a legacy, not a victory, because there weren't any concrete policies or systematic reforms after it.

— Joshua Wong

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

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

— Ed Parker

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Those of us who care deeply about programs like Medicare must embrace the need for modest reforms.

— Barack Obama

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

— Mark McKinnon

We need transformational change of our criminal justice system - not just, you know, a handful of consent decrees or policy reforms.

— Michelle Alexander

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

— Barack Obama

Through trade reforms, Latin American countries can boost their competitiveness in markets for goods and services.

— Arancha Gonzalez

We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.

— Jerome Powell

Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its…

— Adolf Hitler

He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Reforms ensure that everybody benefits and the state generates financial resources to provide for the really deserving.

— Piyush Goyal

The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

— Ginny Brown-Waite

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

— Andrew Thomas