Reform Quotes - Page 13

• The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race. Until that task is accomplished, even partial reform will prove elusive, because white influence permeates every issue in U.S. society, whether domestic or foreign.

  Noel Ignatiev

  Keys, Race, White

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• It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago to reform House Republicans, who are feeling the heat from lobbyist scandals. Well, CNN found out that he rents his two-bedroom apartment from a lobbyist who had clients who had interests in legislation that Boehner sponsored. And for that, Mr. Boehner, you've just won a pair of Stephen Colbert's big brass balls.

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Cnn, Awards

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• In the first two years this is a man [Clinton] who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn’t those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?

  Bryant Gumbel

  Character, Fighting, Gay

  "Welfare Reform: Pray for the Children?". MSNBC's "InterNight" with David Maraniss, archive.mrc.org. October 10, 1996.

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• 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.

  Montel Williams

  Body, Care, Rooms

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• I'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta.

  Joe Scarborough

  Country, Party, President

  "Morning in America". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. June 2, 2009.

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• For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

  Mel Carnahan

  Successful, Organization, Empowering

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• Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we will continue to be in the streets, at town hall meetings and on the phones, demanding justice for the 11 million aspiring Americans in our country.

  Eliseo Medina

  Country, Phones, Justice

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• I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Numbers, Issues

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• Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Baseball, Serious, Problem

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• We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Country, Law, Government

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• Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.

  Lillian Wald

  Attitude, Accomplished, Changed

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• Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Grateful, Tired, Destiny

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• The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

  Mohammad Khatami

  Political, Election, Participation

  "Iranians go to polls to vote in local elections". www.cnn.com. February 26, 1999.

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• MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to their own people. What one hears is often astonishing, sometimes frightening, and always important. Most importantly, it includes the newly-emerging liberal voices of reform and hope, as well as disturbing echoes of ancient hatreds. Without the valuable research of MEMRI, the non-Arabic speaking world would not have this indispensable window.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Echoes, Media, Voice

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• Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Ideas, Fiction

  "Reflections of a Writer: Long Work, Short Life". The New York Times, March 20, 1988.

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• I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Talking, Understanding, Mind

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• It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, World

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.

  Robert Mugabe

  Land, Sanctions, Currents

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• The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Gratitude, Women, Writing

  "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, March 15, 2016.

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• Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Believe, Tasks, Belief

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• Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sympathy, Believe, Animal

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• Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement

  Norm Coleman

  Oil, Needs, Corruption

  "Rice says U.S. still supports Annan". www.washingtontimes.com. September 9, 2005.

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• All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.

  Francis Lambert

  Religious, Religion, Vain

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• The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Energy, Inward

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.141, A&C Black

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• If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.

  Jim DeMint

  People, Political, Care

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