it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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.
Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.
To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
We will have health care reform in America.
Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.
There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.
I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.
There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.
I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
My desolation does begin to make A better life.
The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.
In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Reform is born of need, not pity.
Remorse begets reform.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.
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