Reform Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

  Vera Brittain

  Thinking, Important, Majority

  Vera Brittain (2005). “One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World War”, p.42, A&C Black

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• Its time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

  Herb Kohl

  Drug, Needs, Safe

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• What we’re putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state… for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

  David Cameron

  Thinking, Years, Benefits

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• It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.

  Rick Perlstein

  Sex, Mean, Top Down

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• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  Jack Kingston

  Real, Issues, Effort

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews" with Campbell Brown, www.nbcnews.com. July 18, 2005.

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• For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.

  Anthony Gregory

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

  Mike Pence

  Teeth, Scandal, Mismanagement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the only means of obtaining the reforms we desire. As long as we remain excluded from civic life, men will attend to their own interests rather than to our.

  Hubertine Auclert

  Mean, Men, Long

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• I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

  Thomas E. Donilon

  Doors, Korea, People

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• The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.

  Michael Parenti

  Struggle, Rights, Political

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

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• It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Long, Religion

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• Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer.

  Bruce Braley

  Long, Waiting, Immigration

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• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Unions

  "Year in Review". Rolling Stone, December 15, 1988.

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• We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Real, Educational

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003). “Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships”, p.11, PuddleDancer Press

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• The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Government, Views, United States

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them.

  J. G. Farrell

  Moon, Leaving, India

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• About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

  Reed Hastings

  School, Technology, Organization

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• I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.

  Tony Abbott

  School, Thinking, Conservative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

  Stephen Harper

  Needs, Care, Delivery

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• We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it.

  Mark Steyn

  School, Thinking, Differences

  "Battered Westerner Syndrome inflicted by myopic Muslim defenders" by Mark Steyn, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 23, 2002.

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• I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.

  Steven Morrissey

  Vegetarian, Testicles, My Own

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• I know theres a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. Theres a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.

  Tom McClintock

  Order, California, Schwarzenegger

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• Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always talk about reform and changes. Among the old traditions, there are many aspects that are either ill-suited to our present reality or are counterproductive due to their shortsightedness. These, we have consigned to the dustbin of history. War too should be relegated to the dustbin of history.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, War, Reality

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