Reform Quotes

• We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Society
  • Ourselves
  • Reform

• In America, we will have secure borders, but we'll also have reform.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Reform
  • Secure borders

• We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to get it through an employer.

  

  Monica Crowley
  • Insurance
  • Through
  • Employer

• I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

  

  Stephen A. Schwarzman
  • Important
  • Issues
  • Fairness

• 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.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Nation
  • Foolish
  • Reform

• Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

  

  Ashraf Ghani
  • Despair
  • Crisis
  • Reform

• The honeymoon is the only period when a woman isn't trying to reform her husband.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Woman
  • Reform
  • Honeymoon

• I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Issues
  • Civil Rights
  • Attorney

• 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.

  

  Mike Ross
  • People
  • Reform
  • Deficits

• 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.

  

  Michael Moritz
  • Politician
  • Reform
  • Betrayed

• The best thing we can do to secure the future of the global system, trading system, is to redouble the efforts to improve the system, to reform the system.

  

  Roberto Azevedo
  • Future
  • System
  • Reform

• We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Way
  • System
  • Reform

• It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society
  • Reform
  • Opposition

• Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • School
  • Reform

• 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

  

  African Spir
  • Society
  • Humanity
  • Reform

• I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.

  

  Paul Sadler
  • Education
  • Hated
  • Shower

• We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Law
  • Tradition
  • Reform

• After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Problem
  • Enemy
  • Revolution

• What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Events
  • Roots
  • Branches

• Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Evil
  • Army
  • Take Care

• Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Energy
  • Fighting
  • Hierarchy

• We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Food
  • Spring
  • Reform

• If, in fact, the GOP doesn't like any form of health care reform, what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured?...When they show up in the emergency room, just shoot 'em! Kill them!...Do we have enough body bags? I don't know.

  

  Montel Williams
  • Care
  • Millions
  • Emergency

• The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Wish
  • Force
  • Conservative

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