Quotes About Reform

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day.

Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now.

I wasn't stealing cars at like, six. But I've always been bad.

To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.

Congressional opposition to immigration reform or emergency funds doesn't stem from any philosophical objections or differences of principle. It stems from a calculated, petty, selfish rejection of anything Obama proposes.

We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.

Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India's legislature is being destroyed.

The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed, fantastic. But the first step is moving from processed industrial food to the real thing.

For the states that take the lead on reform - asset recycling, deregulation, service innovation - the Federal Government could step back, and allow greater flexibility in how we deliver our responsibilities.

Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike - and business owners. It's time we did something about it. And public financing of elections should be the first step.

The ACA - popularly known as 'Obamacare' - has been an important step forward toward an admirable goal: providing access to health insurance for all Americans. But like many reforms generated by the political process, the ACA is problematic.

Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

I support the Affordable Care Act and believe we should take steps to further expand coverage and reduce costs.

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.

The future of British politics is not the pale, male and stale stereotype of tradition. Things are changing for the better.

That's why it's time for a change.

So, he continued, if the government controls the established church, then the church ultimately must answer to the people. Thus, he concludes, the people "have the power to governe the Church, to see her do her duty, & to correct her, to redress, reform, establish, & c.

Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.

he believed in the social arrangements of capitalism regardless of what capitalism did to him. Naturally, he was a positive thinker, and in his ability to overlook the world's cruelty and focus exclusively on reforming himself he embodied what the historian Donald Meyer has called the "social anesthetic" side of positive thinking.5

To reason with governments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected.