Reforms Quotes

We must advance regulatory reforms.

— Yoshihide Suga

Labour reforms are not anti-worker.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.

— Belva Ann Lockwood

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

— Lech Walesa

He who reforms, God assists.

— Miguel de Cervantes

You need a real crisis before you have reforms.

— Edward C. Prescott

Truth reforms as well as informs.

— William Jenkyn

Education reforms must be the priority for governments.

— Alain Dehaze

Since the start of the Thatcher economic and fiscal reforms the U.K. economy has expanded five-fold.

— Priti Patel

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

— Narendra Modi

Electoral reforms are necessary if India has to be rid of black money.

— Narendra Modi

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

— Mario Monti

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

— Stephen Harper

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

— Paul Ryan

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

— Russell Kirk

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic…

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

While Slovakia did not make the first round of NATO membership, as various requirements and reforms are instituted, these actions will enhance…

— John Mica

Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion,…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate…

— Joel Miller

I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and…

— Chen Guangbiao

Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms.

— Guy Standing

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschool movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to rebuild a free society with…

— Ron Paul

Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a…

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As…

— Kevin Rudd

I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it…

— Jimmy Carter

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact,…

— Narendra Modi

I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without…

— Cynthia Kauffman

No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

As the head of the government, it is my responsibility to make the overriding political goals and relationships more clear. Part of…

— Angela Merkel

In Burma, we need to find out what we have to do in order to keep the democratization process on track. Economic…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Everyone from Adam Smith, John Stewart Mill, they were all reforms. What they wanted to reform was getting rid of this parasitic…

— Michael Hudson

From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which…

— Frederik Willem de Klerk

“The administrations in charge never cease announcing supposedly necessary reforms: to reform schools, to reform industries, hospitals, the armed forces, prisons. But…

— Gilles Deleuze

“Repentance is a remedy for reformation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.

— Ivica Dacic

My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.

— Nicos Anastasiades

I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.

— Francois Hollande

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

— Jim Sensenbrenner