Reform Quotes - page 6

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative. (John Linder)
The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children. View quote
Juan Williams
Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over. View quote
Jaime Herrera Beutler
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century. View quote
Kenneth Frampton
From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space. View quote
Kenneth Frampton
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. View quote
Lincoln Chafee
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. View quote
Lincoln Steffens
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. View quote
Lionel Blue
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall. View quote
Laura Miller
It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all. View quote
Laurence Housman
I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society. (Laurene Powell Jobs)
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws. View quote
Marty Meehan
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs. View quote
Mel Carnahan
History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing. View quote
Michael Moritz
I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism. View quote
Michael Stuhlbarg
My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform. View quote
Mike Farrell
There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation. View quote
Rob McKenna
And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. View quote
Robert M. Hutchins
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters. (Robert McChesney)
The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform. View quote
Robert Scheer
The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry. View quote
Rosa DeLauro
A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform. View quote
Russell B. Long
Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree." View quote
Russell B. Long