Reform Quotes

• 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

• To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

  

  Confucius
  • Error
  • Reform

• All I can tell you is what I see at home- a lot of lessons learned from '86. That, 'OK, we'll go one-time amnesty and after that we'll really be good.' But nobody believes it this time, nobody believes it.

  

  Michael C. Burgess
  • Home
  • Immigration
  • Amnesty

• 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
  • Political
  • Party
  • Interest

• 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

• 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

• It's true we have not done all we could, ... But we Socialists have a new team now and we are the party of reform.

  

  Georgi Parvanov
  • Team
  • Party
  • 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

• 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

• 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
  • Dangerous
  • Reform
  • Traveling

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Reform
  • Secure borders

• 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

• Tort reform is important. We need to prevent trial lawyers from killing good jobs.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Jobs
  • Killing
  • Lawyers

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

  

  Evan Esar
  • Woman
  • Reform
  • Honeymoon

• I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

  

  Judy Biggert
  • Meaningful
  • Debate
  • 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

• 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

• There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.

  

  George Pell
  • Church
  • Christ
  • Reform

• Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.

  

  Jose Angel Gurria
  • Difficult
  • Reform
  • Capital

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