Reform Quotes
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
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If election is your goal, you're never going to engage in reform. Reform has to be your goal. Election is the means. You run for office in order to do something, not in order to perpetuate yourself.
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If our focus in immigration reform is exclusively on high-skilled or STEM immigrants, where do the rest of the millions yearning to join our ranks fit in?
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
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It is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.
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It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
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I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.
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To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them in a new spirit
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Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.
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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.
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There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.
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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.
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I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.
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The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.
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Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement
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My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.
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Observation... is the pitiless critic of theory; it detects weak points, and provokes reforms which may be the beginnings of discovery.
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Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.
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History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to do it.
