Reform Quotes - Page 19

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.

I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we have brought down from our barbarious ancestors. We have left off the war paint and war whoops, and we shall leave off the hangin' when we get civilized.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

I've been able to stretch myself, covering policy, looking at tax reform, looking at the broader economy [being at Fox]. It's no longer [just] about the stock market. I'm having a ball. And, the glamor of TV also makes it fun.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now.

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting 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.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.

With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day

There seems to be a lot of momentum behind immigration reform.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

I don't think anybody really thinks that one should get rid of the World Bank. Reform is one thing, but getting rid of it I think would be wrong.

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.