Quotes About Reform

#1. You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

Ralph Steadman

#2. You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.

Lauren Kate

#3. Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Voltaire

#4. We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

Carly Fiorina

#5. Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

Bonnell Thornton

#6. Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

John S. Watson

#7. The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

John Linder

#8. (Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.

Joseph Bottum

#9. If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

Steven Pinker

#10. I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

Deb Fischer

#11. Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Over on the Democratic side, Martin O'Malley recently spoke about the need for Wall Street reform and said that he isn't running for president to be quote, 'wined and dined' by executives. Then Chris Christie said, 'And I am also not running to be wined.'

Jimmy Fallon

#13. Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.

David Limbaugh

#14. We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

Luis Gutierrez

#15. Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#16. We should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

Nikola Tesla

#17. My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

David Eagleman

#18. Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

#19. We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.

Charles Kennedy

#20. I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Darrell Issa

#21. The message I would say to China is, 'Carry on with the reform; carry on with the change you are making.'

George Osborne

#22. Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The

George Eliot

#23. Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn't come to that! But it might.

Timothy McVeigh

#24. There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

Mike Quigley

#25. I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

Ismail Haniyeh

#26. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.

Christopher Hitchens

#27. The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

Robert Peel

#28. I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

Bruce Rauner

#29. Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.

Grover Norquist

#30. The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Earl Browder

#31. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

George H. W. Bush

#32. I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

John Garamendi

#33. Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.

Dominic Stevenson

#34. An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

Don Marquis

#35. With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

Kumi Naidoo

#36. Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

Andy Hargreaves

#37. The American people ... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

Rahm Emanuel

#38. The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

George Santayana

#39. What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
I moisten the roots of all that has grown.

Walt Whitman

#40. The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.

Michelle Alexander

#41. America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

Hank Johnson

#42. To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#43. I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

Tariq Ramadan

#44. We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Kent Conrad

#45. Any reform of that fundamental nature, potentially constitutional, it has to go to the people. It has to be a be a referendum, and that's why it was a plebiscite in all of the provinces in which it's been attempted.

Rona Ambrose

#46. To discard what is unwanted, and to retain what is needed, is what reform means.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#47. Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

William Hague

#48. Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

Newt Gingrich

#49. In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings with fishing line.

Rick Perlstein

#50. Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Diane Ravitch

#51. We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.

Robert Mugabe

#52. Health is a human necessity; health is a human right

James Lenhart

#53. You can't have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

David Oyelowo

#54. President Obama hosted lawmakers Thursday saying he wanted bipartisan input on health care reform. Nobody's mind was changed. At the summit's end he threatened to go with the nuclear option, showing he's tougher on Republicans than he is on Iran.

Argus Hamilton

#55. I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.

Bob Menendez

#56. The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

Bob Barr

#57. But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.

Sarah Palin

#58. We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

Rupert Murdoch

#59. Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism.

Hughes Oliphant Old

#60. As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet.

Wu Yi

#61. If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole reimbursement system which will help in terms of reducing costs and creating the right kind of incentives for savings.

John Hoeven

#62. Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society.

Ellen Key

#63. China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.

Hu Jintao

#64. No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

Gore Vidal

#65. When Congress talks of tax reform, grab your wallet and run for cover.

Steve Symms

#66. If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

Gary Locke

#67. Self-reform is the only kind that works.

Mason Cooley

#68. There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

John T. Walton

#69. The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Jesse Helms

#70. My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.

Marilyn Mosby

#71. An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

Bill Vaughan

#72. A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

Will Rogers

#73. I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#74. Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

John Shadegg

#75. Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds from the Koch brothers and other people in the fossil fuel industry. That tells me why we have to reform our campaign finance system.

Bernie Sanders

#76. It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

Peter The Great

#77. As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it
along the lines that President Bush proposed.

John McCain

#78. Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#79. You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#80. One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

Abdolkarim Soroush

#81. The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.

T. Colin Campbell

#82. As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

Geoff Mulgan

#83. Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I'll let him explain why.

Lindsey Graham

#84. During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.

Chellie Pingree

#85. The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Theodore Roosevelt

#86. God knows," Charpentier said, "I like the present scheme of things very little, but I dread to think what will happen if the conduct of reform falls into hands like yours."
"Reform?" Camille said. "I'm not talking about reform. The city will explode this summer.

Hilary Mantel

#87. None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

Benjamin Whichcote

#88. The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

Eric Topol

#89. Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

Amit Ray

#90. A reformer cannot afford to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform. True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#91. The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

Robert Green Ingersoll

#92. Reform is China's second revolution.

Deng Xiaoping

#93. Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

Eugene McCarthy

#94. [Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

Ronald Reagan

#95. The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

Robert Scheer

#96. If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#97. If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Charles Simmons

#98. 290 To reform. Every day a little. This has to be your constant task if you really want to become a saint.

Josemaria Escriva

#99. The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#100. I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.

Raul Labrador