Reform Quotes - Page 4

• Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Two, Too Much, Firsts

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• If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Judging, People

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU and the Commission... but every nation has to have the courage to broach such structural reforms and speak clearly about them without making people be afraid.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  People, Support, Germany

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• We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, Powerful, Election Process

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 26, 2006.

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• Reform is a process, and not an event.

  Kofi Annan

  Events, Process

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

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• We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Movement, Today

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• 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

  Country, Wealth, Economy

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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

  Powerful, Special, Firsts

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• A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.

  Michael Gove

  School, Mean, Home

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• Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

  William Hague

  Country, Hands, People

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• The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

  William Hague

  July, Cities, Political

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• I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Spring, People, Democracy

  "Hamas ditches Assad, backs Syrian revolt". www.reuters.com. February 24, 2012.

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• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Government

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• Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Teacher, Powerful

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• One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Goal, Cost, Majors

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• Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Priorities, Administration, Financial

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• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  Jack Kingston

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

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• It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Integrity

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• America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

  Richard Lamm

  Country, Real, America

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• John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Jesus, Blood, Rivers

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• So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Liberty, Foundation

  "Rush: Obama bastardizing Constitution" by David Mark, www.politico.com. February 28, 2009.

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• The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

  John Linder

  Country, Rights, Years

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• We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

  Joan Lunden

  School, Lunch, Healthy

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• Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

  Theresa May

  Mean, Years, Police

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• Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Government, Epidemics, Autism

  "Preventing Another Generation of Children With Autism" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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