Adoption Quote by William Cobbett

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup…

— David Blunkett

Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.

— David Blunkett

I'm a firm believer that if we could restore real parliamentary democracy, the best way to do that would be to get rid of…

— Elizabeth May

“Furthermore, the managerial ethos of parliamentary reformism is in direct tension with important values associated with the dialogue that attends our system of checks…

— Thomas O. Sargentich

Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so as to…

— Dick Morris

Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now…

— Margaret Thatcher

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond…

— Edward Heath

The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

— Arundhati Roy

Parliament has become so undermined it is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it. A glaring example is the budget…

— Sheila Fraser

In the past we entrusted money to the government sector and the government sector simply did not spend the money wisely. And that is…

— George W. Bush

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not…

— Jeb Bush

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

— Samuel Smiles