Reform Quotes - Page 10

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

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

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

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

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

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.

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.

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.

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us.

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

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

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.