Reform Quotes - page 3

Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions. (Neil Kinnock)
Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments -- as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines -- results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth. View quote
Lawrence Summers
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. View quote
Mort Sahl
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it - the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage. Legislation is required to establish the reform. No proper legislation is to be expected as long as members of Congress are engaged in procuring offices for their constituents. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
I often say that censorship is always a cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think. View quote
Julian Assange
The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them till last. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit. View quote
African Spir
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain. View quote
Anatole France
Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions. (Barbara Tuchman)
We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform. View quote
Michael Parenti
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes. View quote
Bernard Bailyn
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual. View quote
Peter Drucker
True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal. View quote
Mehmet Oz
Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union. (P. J. O'Rourke)
Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing. View quote
James Surowiecki
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it. View quote
James Surowiecki
We need... a much more competent and honest government. Economic reform and political reform must go hand in hand. Without the one there cannot be the other. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged. View quote
John Taylor Gatto