Reform Quotes
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Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.
George W. Plunkitt
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In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to start his businesses. In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women's rights are human rights. He insulted a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, called her an eating machine.
Hillary Clinton
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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
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Reform is born of need, not pity.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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Castellani's testimony clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.
Abraham Foxman
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I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
Henry Louis Gates
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We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.
Nat Hentoff
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I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.
Julia Gillard
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He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.
Morris West
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The reform and opening up of China hasn't been happening quite the way we've been told, like a small bird breaking out of its egg. Its more like a cicada shedding its skin, emerging ever so slowly. Energy is the last part of that shell that needs to be shed.
Chai Jing
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We cannot reform our forefathers.
George Eliot
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It has often been suggested that Chinese-style, market-oriented reforms are the solution to the North Korean problem.
Andrei Lankov
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As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet.
Wu Yi
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I talk about the three R's, that jobs equals three R's: Repeal Obamacare. Reform our tax-and-spend policies to make us the most competitive in the world. And relight America with American energy.
Keith Rothfus
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The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.
Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
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I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.
Cory Booker
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
Thomas Carlyle
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The coup d’etat found echoes in the army and navy which, believing in their creative strength, unanimously adhered to the new regime and set to work on a radical reform of the armed forces of the country.
Alexander Guchkov
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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
Carroll Quigley
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My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.
Nicos Anastasiades
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Tax reform has been a congressional priority for decades. It should be a bipartisan issue. I don't know why anyone in Congress would want their constituents to pay more.
Matt Gaetz
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The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.
Evangelos Venizelos
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The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism.
Eric Kierans
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By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We The Replacements stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out.
Paul Westerberg The Replacements