Reform Quotes - Page 4

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.

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.

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

...the way to reform has always led through prison.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

The best social reform program in the world is a job.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

The situation in Georgia is determined by the breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia. While we must acknowledge the reforms initiated by Mikheil Saakashvili that drastically lowered the level of corruption and authoritarian structures in the Georgian state, under the above-mentioned circumstances, the ruling elite must keep a firm grip on the country.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

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

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.

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

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

Instead of working to undo POTUS exec action, we need to workcollaboratively to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.

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

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.