Quotes About Reform

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

the French educational system is a vast insider-trading crime.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Israel's Supreme Court is one of the best in the world, and I think that it should stay that way; I don't want to weaken it, I just want to change its approach.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

I'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta.

The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country.

This whole business of calling farmers all kinds of cheap names, such as Khalistanis, Urban Naxalites, was resorted to by BJP to weaken and damage the farmers' battle against the farm laws.

Under the Bush plan, Social Security gets weaker, not stronger.

The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries.

We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country.

I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.

The biggest problem Haiti has is the weakness of its public institutions.

Addressing the weaknesses of capitalism will require us, above all, to do two things: first, to take a long-term perspective, and second, to re-set the priorities of business.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way.