Quotes About Reform

him took place all over the country. And—for better or worse—his conviction that Chinese needed a protracted period of firm, authoritarian political tutelage before democracy could be risked has become the template for reform ever since. As

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

I love conservatism when it means the preservation of beautiful things, I love revolution when it means the destruction of vile ones.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

The Committee on Oversight and Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives announced that it would hold a hearing on "The Role of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family in the Opioid Epidemic

The 1980s have been described as the "lost decade" for Latin America. My view is different: it was one of lost opportunities.

If Jean Valjean had me representing him," he likes to say, "then Les Misérables would've only been six pages long. Dismissed—Loaf of Bread Pilfery.

The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid.

You see, the biggest protection against the kingdom of self is not a set of self-reformative defensive strategies. It's a heart that's so blown away by the right-here, right-now glories of the grace of Jesus Christ that we're not easily seduced by the lesser temporary glories of that claustrophobic kingdom of one, the kingdom of self.

Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.

We all fail somehow, someway every day. Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

No vale la pena tener una reforma si se obtiene haciendo tantas concesiones que acaban por condenarla al fracaso.

So sue me, I think the marijuana laws are bullshit.

When the law doesn't work, you gotta work the law.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.