Reform Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to work with the immigrant rights community and our allies in Congress to devise a truly comprehensive model that places immigrant and workers' rights at the head of the line.

  John Sweeney

  Country, Real, Hard Work

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• One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Buddhist, Moon

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• All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Believe, Men

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• The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on this matter; it was forced by outside pressure to reform. To be sure, the Protestant churches were no better in this regard; it is simply that they had less time - only two or three centuries - to engage in the torching of witches. After all, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, stated quite correctly that disbelief in witches meant a disbelief in the Bible.

  S. T. Joshi

  Religious, Two, Catholic

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• The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed.

  Erwin Chemerinsky

  Meaningful, Reality, Police

  "Report faults LAPD culture for corruption", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2000.

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• I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

  Jim McDermott

  Struggle, Reality, Hysteria

  "Health Care Reform Benefits: Truth vs. Pure Politics" by Rep. Jim McDermott, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.

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• I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine that are nearby. It's just a reality.

  John McCain

  Country, Reality, California

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• In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

  Andrew Lansley

  Reality, Cost, Rising

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• While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.

  George Mason

  Government, People, Community

  Virginia Declaration of Rights (Article 3), June 12, 1776.

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• Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kindness, Civility, Cruelty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4249, Library of Alexandria

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• Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.

  George W. Plunkitt

  Morning, Political, Looks

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• Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

  Steve Bartlett

  Retirement, Advice, Enrollment

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• Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

  Pete Sessions

  Retirement, Social, Certainty

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• On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand, we have the day-to-day struggle; on the other, the social revolution. It follows that this movement can best advance by tacking betwixt and between the two dangers by which it is constantly being threatened. One is the loss of its mass character; the other, the abandonment of its goal. One is the danger of sinking back to the condition of a sect; the other, the danger of becoming a movement of bourgeois social reform.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Struggle, Character, Loss

  "The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?".

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• Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

  Frank Carlucci

  Kings, Qatar, Effort

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• Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

  Andrew Card

  Successful, Important, Campaigns

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. January 21, 2001.

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• The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

  Jim Talent

  Marriage, Strong, Hurt

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• My case clearly demonstrates the need for comprehensive whistleblower protection act reform. If we had had a real process in place, and reports of wrongdoing could be taken to real, independent arbiters rather than captured officials, I might not have had to sacrifice so much to do what at this point even the President seems to agree needed to be done.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Taken, Independent

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• He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  World, Labor, Loses

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• You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Snow, Paper, Noise

  "Great speeches of the 20th century: Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or death". www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

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• Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Crush, Government, Ideas

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.187, The Floating Press

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

  Mo Udall

  Women, Consequence

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• Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

  Russell Kirk

  Surgery

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Politics of Prudence”, p.34, Open Road Media

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