Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

I love reform better than its modes.

Jim Bridenstine

Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.

Horace Mann

Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.

Hosea Ballou

True repentance also involves reform.

Hosea Ballou

True repentance always involves reform.

Any immigration reform has to be comprehensive and not mean-spirited.

I'm a big reformer. And it's time to reform congressional relations at the White House.

Miguel de Cervantes

He who reforms, God assists.

John W. Gardner

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

Lu Xun

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

John Bright

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

Luis Gutierrez

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

Peter Drucker

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

Montel Williams

If, in fact, the GOP doesn't like any form of health care reform, what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured?...When they show up in the emergency room, just shoot 'em! Kill them!...Do we have enough body bags? I don't know.

John Garamendi

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

John Mica

Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

Fred Upton

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

John Lancaster Spalding

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

But it is still the most important immigration reform that I will have seen in my lifetime,

Ezra Cornell

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

George Bernard Shaw

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

Noah Webster

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.

Noam Chomsky

'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As soon as you hear the word 'Reform', you should reach for your wallet and see who's lifting it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

Theodore Roosevelt

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Lydia M. Child

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

Michel de Montaigne

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

Paul Ryan

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

Justin Amash

There seems to be a lot of momentum behind immigration reform.

Julia Gillard

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Narendra Modi

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

Kenneth Frampton

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.