Quotes About Reform

We can't turn back and be the unelectable party of protest.

The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.

Even those of us who do not understand the nuances of economics have come to accept that reform cannot be bloodless. We are often impatient with the predictable, do-gooder campaigns against development. We argue passionately against the humbug protests of those who never want the poor to get rich.

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

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

We have proven that you can actually move strong, progressive policies, grow the economy, and improve the human condition.

Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

Mindfulness thrives on the belief that the root of problem is to be found in individuals themselves, rather than in a socio-economic reality. Allegedly, it is not society that needs reform, but individuals who need to adapt, change, and improve.

ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.

You know, he added reflectively, we've got a much easier job now than we should have had fifty years ago. If we'd had to modernise a country then it would have meant constitutional monarchy, bicameral legislature, proportional representation, women's suffrage, independent judicature, freedom of the press, referendums . . . What is all that? asked the Emperor. Just a few ideas that have ceased to be modern.

It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.

Reform won't catch up to the needs of civilization unless it's made to.

The American political system has lost the ability for large-scale compromise, and it has lost the ability to accept some pain now for much gain later on.

Historically the lesson is clear: if growing inequalities are not addressed by reforms, revolution might follow.

Una vida más larga sin duda representa una buena noticia para los individuos, pero es, en cambio, una mala noticia para el Estado del bienestar y los políticos que tienen que persuadir a los votantes de la necesidad de reformarlo. Hay, sin embargo, una noticia aún peor: el hecho de que, por más que la población mundial se haga más vieja, el propio mundo puede estar volviéndose al mismo tiempo un lugar más peligroso.

To fight for change is to be incapable of changing oneself. To reform is to be beyond repair.*

Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything, or his own being, which is almost everything, he flees, devoting himself to modifying others and the outside world. Every revolutionary and reformer is a fugitive. To fight for change is to be incapable of changing oneself. To reform is to be beyond repair.

Si odio algo, es a un reformista. Un reformista es un hombre que ve los males superficiales del mundo y se propone curarlos agravando los fundamentales.

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

The Narendra Modi government has worked for the betterment of the agricultural sector as a whole and towards the goal of doubling the farmer's income.

AAP will ensure that farmers get back their respect in the state when it comes to power.