214 Quotes on Reform

• In the hush of life's tumult, introverts harness thoughts that snipers unleash, shaping thoughts into future movements within the sanctuary of their alone time.

  Author: Maya Rivers

• Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

  Author: Edward Young

• Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

  Author: Andrew Young

• We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.

  Author: Wu Yi

• We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions... and we need to do it under tight control.

  Author: Wu Yi

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

  Author: Wu Yi

• Reform is China's second revolution.

  Author: Deng Xiaoping

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

  Author: Juan Williams

• And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.

  Author: Juan Williams

• Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

  Author: Mae West

• Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

  Author: Jerry Weller

• Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.

  Author: Mark Warner

• 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.

  Author: John Walton

• Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

  Author: James Walsh

• A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

  Author: Kenzo Tange

• The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

  Author: James Talent

• We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

  Author: Anne Swetchine

• You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

  Author: Peter Stuyvesant

• I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• 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.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

• It starts with campaign finance reform.

  Author: Zack Space

• I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.

  Author: John Snow

• There's been a lot said about Social Security reform. What has been left out of the debate is the double tax on Social Security benefits. I believe it's time to get rid of a tax that punishes seniors and discourages work and retirement savings.

  Author: Rob Simmons

• We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

  Author: Chen Shui-bian

• War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

  Author: William Sherman

• The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

  Author: Natan Sharansky

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

  Author: John Shadegg

• Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• 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.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• There's never a good year for immigration reform - that's why it's dragged on ineffectually for decades.

  Author: Kenneth Scott

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

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

  Author: George Santayana

• A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

  Author: Mort Sahl

• Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

  Author: John Ruskin

• Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

  Author: Zhu Rongji

• What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.

  Author: Christina Romer

• What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

  Author: Bob Riley

• It is vitally important that we implement immigration reform. We need a bill that strengthens our borders and protects this nation, but that also makes it simpler for good people to become Americans.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

  Author: Diane Ravitch

• We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• 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.

  Author: Carroll Quigley

• And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode.

  Author: Ben Quayle

• I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

  Author: Ben Quayle

• It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

  Author: Mike Pence

• 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!

  Author: Robert Peel

• I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

  Author: George Orwell

• I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

  Author: William Odom

• After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

  Author: Barack Obama

• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  Author: Barack Obama

• We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

  Author: Barack Obama

• The reform of government needs to continue.

  Author: Jim Nussle

• If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

  Author: Charlie Norwood

• Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.'

  Author: Kristi Noem

• I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

  Author: Don Nickles

• I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

  Author: Ben Nelson

• To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

  Author: John Negroponte

• There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

  Author: Grace Napolitano

• It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race.

  Author: John Murray

• I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.

  Author: Brian Mulroney

• I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

  Author: Laura Miller

• Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

  Author: John Mica

• A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

  Author: Andrew Mellon

• Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans.

  Author: John McHugh

• Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted.

  Author: John McHugh

• I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

  Author: Patrick McHenry

• I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

  Author: Jim McDermott

• The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

  Author: Bill McCollum

• But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council.

  Author: Michael McCaul

• Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

  Author: Michael McCaul

• Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• Reform, that we may preserve.

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

• Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

  Author: Russell Long

• A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

  Author: Russell Long

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

  Author: Gary Locke

• If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.

  Author: Mary Little

• We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• 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.

  Author: John Linder

• Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

  Author: Anne Lindbergh

• So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.

  Author: Robert Lifton

• I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.

  Author: Robert Lifton

• The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

  Author: Joe Lieberman

• In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform.

  Author: Wyndham Lewis

• Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

  Author: William Leahy

• Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

  Author: James Leach

• John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

  Author: Kenneth Latourette

• I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

  Author: Paul Krugman

• It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

  Author: Herb Kohl

• It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

  Author: Vaclav Klaus

• The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

  Author: William Kirby

• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  Author: Jack Kingston

• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  Author: Jack Kingston

• So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

  Author: Kim Jung

• But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

  Author: Kim Jung

• Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

  Author: Valerie Jarrett

• Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

  Author: Valerie Jarrett

• One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

  Author: Valerie Jarrett

• You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

  Author: Steve Israel

• I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

  Author: Johnny Isakson

• It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

  Author: Bob Inglis

• Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

  Author: Robert Ingersoll

• Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.

  Author: John Hutton

• Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

  Author: Robert Hutchins

• In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

  Author: Jinato Hu

• It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

  Author: Laurence Housman

• Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.

  Author: John Hooker

• There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

  Author: Harri Holkeri

• While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

  Author: Ruben Hinojosa

• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  Author: Patricia Hewitt

• It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

  Author: Jesse Helms

• 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.

  Author: Jesse Helms

• That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

  Author: Michael Harrington

• The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

  Author: John Harlan

• The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

  Author: Chuck Hagel

• The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

  Author: Andrew Greeley

• Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

  Author: Lindsey Graham

• Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

  Author: John Goodman

• As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

  Author: Virgil Goode

• I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

  Author: Johann Goethe

• We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

  Author: Newt Gingrich

• Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

  Author: Jim Gerlach

• Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

  Author: Elizabeth Fry

• You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'

  Author: Harold Ford

• Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

  Author: Aulus Flaccus

• There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

  Author: Joschka Fischer

• What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

  Author: Carly Fiorina

• I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

  Author: Diane Feinstein

• My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

  Author: Mike Farrell

• Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

  Author: John Ensign

• The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

  Author: Rahm Emanuel

• In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

  Author: Charles Edison

• We will have health care reform in America.

  Author: Dick Durbin

• We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

  Author: Arne Duncan

• We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

  Author: Jim DeMint

• The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry.

  Author: Rosa DeLauro

• Reform is born of need, not pity.

  Author: Rebecca Davis

• We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

  Author: Tom Daschle

• At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

  Author: Rodney Dangerfield

• Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy.

  Author: Jim Costa

• There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

  Author: Ezra Cornell

• The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.

  Author: Jim Cooper

• Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

  Author: Kent Conrad

• Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

  Author: Samuel Coleridge

• Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

  Author: Tom Coburn

• Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

  Author: Jim Clyburn

• We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

  Author: Warren Christopher

• And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

  Author: Chris Christie

• I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

  Author: Chris Christie

• Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

  Author: Lincoln Chafee

• For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

  Author: Mel Carnahan

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

  Author: Frank Carlucci

• The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

  Author: Donald Carcieri

• On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

  Author: Kim Campbell

• What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

  Author: David Cameron

• Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

  Author: Herman Cain

• I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

  Author: Paul Butterfield

• I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

  Author: John Burns

• To innovate is not to reform.

  Author: Edmund Burke

• A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

  Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

  Author: James Buckley

• Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

  Author: Art Buchwald

• Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

  Author: Jerry Brown

• The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

  Author: Earl Browder

• I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

  Author: John Bright

• Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.

  Author: John Bright

• With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

  Author: John Bright

• Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

  Author: Kit Bond

• History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

  Author: Christopher Bond

• I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

  Author: Lionel Blue

• Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.

  Author: Marsha Blackburn

• I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

  Author: Jeff Bingaman

• 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.

  Author: Judy Biggert

• 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.

  Author: Isaiah Berlin

• Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

  Author: Joe Baca

• Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.

  Author: Ibrahim Babangida

• I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.

  Author: David Axelrod

• But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

  Author: David Axelrod

• Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.

  Author: Julian Assange

• Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

  Author: Julian Assange

• The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

  Author: Aristotle

• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  Author: Susan Anthony

• What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

  Author: B. Ambedkar

• In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

  Author: Christiane Amanpour

• In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

  Author: Abdallah Abdallah II

• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  Author: Jack Abbott

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