Quotes About Reform

On taking office as General Secretary in 1985 I was immediately faced with an avalanche of problems. It was vital to change our relationship with the West, particularly the United States, and to bring the costly and dangerous arms race to an end. We needed to withdraw from the damaging and costly war in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union faced tremendous internal problems. The process of reform required new leadership and courage.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.

There is no half-measure--NO scratching on the surface of the rubbish heap of tradition will bring about Reform, the only method is Absolute Demolition

This arcane system has been in place, unchanged, for over a hundred years. It contains no procedure for modification, no avenue for improvement or reform. Complaining or resisting is taboo. As noted, I had been trying to initiate changes in the system since I was fifteen. To no avail.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

La adaptación de los partidos políticos al siglo XXI es una prioridad.

necesitamos partidos políticos más fuertes, más modernos y más democráticos, que estimulen y faciliten la participación.

Alguien tiene que decir algo sobre las víctimas de los centenares de expropiaciones, sobre los más de dos millones y medio de hectáreas adueñadas a la fuerza que han terminado por convertir al gobierno en el más grande latifundista del país, y que en el fondo no han mejorado la calidad de vida de los más humildes.

to eradicate the vetocracy that is paralyzing the system, "political reform must first and foremost be driven by popular, grassroots mobilization.

Juro delante de Dios, juro delante de la Patria, juro delante de mi pueblo que sobre esta moribunda Constitución haré cumplir, impulsaré las transformaciones democráticas necesarias para que la República nueva tenga una Carta Magna adecuada a los nuevos tiempos. Lo juro.

We have changed all that.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

In the United States, the person who led the fight to reform treatment of the mentally ill and to develop asylums was Dorothea Dix. Often neglected in history, Dix was a nurse

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

He embraced political power not as an end in itself, but for what it could accomplish for the betterment of society;

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.