Reform Quotes - Page 18

• A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

  Jim Wallis

  Years, Iraq, Dollars

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• In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

  Zhu Rongji

  Circumstances, Courses, Reformation

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• The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.

  Jesse Helms

  United States, Influence, Interest

  "UNA Greater Philadelphia: U.S. Should Fund the U.N. in Full and On Time!" by Louis Bolling, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2017.

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• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  Jack Abbott

  School, Causes, Prison

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• Health care is a far more serious, immediate and destructive problem than social security. . . . The upfront investment needed to fund system wide [health care] reform . . . would be far offset by the savings.

  Henry Simmons

  Would Be, Saving, Care

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• It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition.

  Pema Chodron

  Giving Up, Issues, Justice

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• No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Justice, Hardship

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.578, GENERAL PRESS

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• Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for reform, for a quicker process, they're really calling for a restriction of the rights of people to be involved in the planning process.

  Daniel Kammen

  Rights, Law, People

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• It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.

  Roger Helmer

  Liberty, Misery, Deserve

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• Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Choices, Fundamentals, Way

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• My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

  Mike Farrell

  Dream, Struggle, Simple

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• The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

  Rosa DeLauro

  Oil, Giving, Energy

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• Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental freedoms but also. . . it undermines personal health and public safety. Regardless of your views on the civil liberties issues. . .another compelling justification for marijuana law reform: that it will promote health and safety for all of us, including our nation's children.

  Nadine Strossen

  Children, Marijuana, Law

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• And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Real, Years, People

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• Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Years, Broken, Giving

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• Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Recovery, Successful, Way

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• Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the school teachers - we will still teachI will never follow the lead of those who exclude the kids who need education the most so that my precious scores will rise. I will never line up with those whose idea of reform is the subtle segregation of the poor and desperate. I want no part of the American caste system.

  John Kuhn

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Years, People, Argument

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• On the strength of strong public support, I will have (the postal reform bills) passed within this session.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Strong, Support, Bills

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• Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

  Lucas Papademos

  Debt, Exit, Currency

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• We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

  Anna Lindh

  Political, Needs, Arena

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• In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

  Hu Jintao

  Past, Opening Up, Years

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• A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

  Andrew Mellon

  Ideas, Common Sense, Program

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• The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

  Bill McCollum

  Night, House, Care

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• Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

  Jim Leach

  Drawing, President, Necessary Change

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