Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

George H. W. Bush

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Mo Udall

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Julia Gillard

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

Moliere

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Horace Mann

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

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

Phil Bredesen

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

John Lancaster Spalding

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

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.

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.

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.

Mario Monti

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

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.

Kenzo Tange

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

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.

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.

Peter Drucker

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

Theodore Roosevelt

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

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.

Tacitus

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

Sophie Swetchine

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

Robert Reich

We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.

Richard Baxter

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

Samuel Rutherford

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

Zhu Rongji

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.