Quotes About Reform

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.

Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.