Reform Quotes

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.

We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.

Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

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.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

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

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

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.

Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.

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.

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

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.