Events Quote by Jose Manuel Barroso

Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing to provide…

— Dean Spade

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested…

— John Stuart Mill

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

— Diane Ravitch

Reform is a process, and not an event.

— Kofi Annan

My experience in government is there is a whole host of unintended consequences you have to think through. I can't un-know that, I find…

— Jo Swinson

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most…

— Jim DeMint

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous…

— Anonymous

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

— Thomas Sowell

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond…

— George Papandreou