Quotes and Sayings About Reform
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Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.
-- Aaron Klein -
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
-- Abraham Verghese -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.
-- Adam Selzer -
I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution
-- Aja Monet -
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The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
-- Al Gore -
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.
-- Al Gore -
Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.
-- Amy Klobuchar -
Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.
-- Andrew CardSource : "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. January 21, 2001.
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In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.
-- Andrew Lansley -
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A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
-- Andrew Mellon -
Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.
-- Andrew Tobias -
We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.
-- Anna Lindh -
One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.
-- Anne Wojcicki -
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Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority and tenure. I've done both - I've advocated for both. I've advocated for - seek for reform as well.
-- Antonio VillaraigosaSource : "David Axelrod and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defend President Obama's economic record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 02, 2012.
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We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.
-- Arne Duncan -
He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
-- Art BuchwaldSource : Art Buchwald (1963). “I Chose Capitol Punishment”
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No true reform has ever come to pass Unchallenged by a liar and an ass.
-- Arthur Guiterman -
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
-- Atul Gawande -
I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform.
-- Barack Obama -
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
-- Barack Obama -
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
-- Barbara Boxer -
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.
-- Ben Quayle -
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None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
-- Benjamin WhichcoteSource : Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.95
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What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.
-- Bernard BailynSource : Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.160, Harvard University Press