Reform Quotes - Page 39

• Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.

  Scott Walker

  Mean, Fire, Pay

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• We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

  Scott Walker

  Thinking, Government, Class

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• Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.

  Gary Johnson

  Grace, Cards, Pay

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• In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.

  Alison Weir

  Ideas, Church, Library

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• All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms.

  Martin Frost

  Party, Needs, Fundamentals

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• But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

  Lu Xun

  People, Culture, Able

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• You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

  Lu Xun

  World, Existential

  Lu Xun (2014). “Selected Essays of Master Lu Xun”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

  Christopher Bond

  Opportunity, Long, Lessons

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• With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

  John Bright

  Favour, Worthy, Ballots

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

  John Bright

  Party, Years, Thirty

  Speech on April 28, 1859. The Times, p. 6, April 29, 1859.

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• I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

  John Burns

  Past, Light, Done

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• I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

  Ben Nelson

  Challenges, Wish, Campaigns

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• Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

  Michael Horton

  Criticism, Church, Target

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• Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

  Voltaire

  Abuse, Dangerous, Ought

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2871, Delphi Classics

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• An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

  Don Marquis

  Whiskey, Stomach, Resolve

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.563, Doubleday

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• Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.

  John Bright

  Cities, Effort, Kingdoms

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators.

  Christopher Bond

  Mean, Simple, Long

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• The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.

  Donald Evans

  Views, Political, Important

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• I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

  Andrew Thomas

  Powerful, Law, Community

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• I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.

  Scott Walker

  Teacher, Thinking, Issues

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• The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us.

  John Locke

  Passion, Giving, Done

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.1542, Delphi Classics

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• You know, people like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington. I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government creates jobs. And one of the best things we can do is get the government out of the way, put in reign in all the out of control regulations, put in place and all of the above energy policy, give people the education, the skills that the need to succeed, and lower the tax rate and reform the tax code.

  Scott Walker

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I believe what I call common sense gun reform. Plus, a revolution in mental health, making sure that if people are having a nervous breakdown, or are suicidal, or homicidal, they get the care they need when they need it. I think the vast majority of the American people can support and agenda composed of those features.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Suicidal, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

  Charles Stross

  Atheist, British, Judaism

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• We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came out to the streets and shouted and chanted for more reforms and more freedoms.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Past, People, Leader

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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