Reform Quotes - Page 6

Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

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.

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.

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

Truth reforms as well as informs.

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

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.

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!

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

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.

True repentance always involves reform.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

I am not arguing that we should never use legal reform as a tactic. Instead, I argue that it should not be a goal.

Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.

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.

Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.

Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms.

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also deal with the economy. There is a direct link between how we deal with the economy and how we deal with nature.