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Reform is born of need, not pity. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. -- Thomas Carlyle
Reform is Chinas second revolution. -- Deng Xiaoping
Reform is China's second revolution. -- Deng Xiaoping
Reform, that we may preserve. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Reform is not a one-night stand. -- John Bolton
Reform, like charity, must begin at home. -- Thomas Carlyle
Reform is 'the biggest dividend' for China. -- Li Keqiang
Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed. -- Lillian Wald
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle -- Heinrich Heine
Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man. -- Henry David Thoreau
Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. -- James Gibbons
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! -- Malcolm X
The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. -- Susan B. Anthony
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. -- Lionel Blue
Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear. -- George W. Plunkitt
Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it. -- Pete Laney
Reform Jews are the children of Conservative Jews, or as they are sometimes known, Christians with curlier hair. -- Jon Stewart
We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together. -- Garry Breitkreuz
Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once. -- Joshua Reynolds
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! -- Thomas B. Macaulay
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
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
Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas. -- Mark Udall
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scott Walker's campaign slogan is 'Reform. Growth. Safety.' Which is actually similar to Donald Trump's new slogan: 'Mexico. Money. Crazy.' -- Jimmy Fallon
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one. -- Charles Kennedy
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
I don't think anybody really thinks that one should get rid of the World Bank. Reform is one thing, but getting rid of it I think would be wrong. -- Joseph Stiglitz
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land. -- Barack Obama
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
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't. -- Rodney Dangerfield
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. -- B. R. Ambedkar
Every reform was once a private opinion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My desolation does begin to make A better life. -- William Shakespeare
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. -- Mort Sahl
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way. -- Michel de Montaigne
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. -- William Cowper
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. -- Norman Douglas
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. -- George Orwell
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. -- John Stuart Mill
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. -- John Jay Chapman
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. -- Thomas Carlyle
The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men. -- David Lloyd George
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences... -- Susan B. Anthony
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. -- Lincoln Steffens
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention. -- Anne Wojcicki
The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way. -- Bernie Sanders
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. -- Ismail Haniyeh
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. -- George Santayana
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
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. -- Albert Camus
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. -- Robert M. Hutchins
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. -- Chuck Hagel
There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders. -- Pope Francis
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. -- Isaiah Berlin
I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice. -- Two Chainz
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. -- Tony Blair
I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care. -- Dianne Feinstein
Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs. -- David Limbaugh
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world. -- Adam Braun
I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive. -- Gail Collins
The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children. -- Juan Williams
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. -- Barack Obama
Remorse begets reform. -- William Cowper
True repentance also involves reform. -- Hosea Ballou
True repentance always involves reform. -- Hosea Ballou
We cannot reform our forefathers. -- George Eliot
Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. -- Max Baucus
Self-reform automatically brings about social reform. -- Ramana Maharshi
It starts with campaign finance reform. -- Zack Space
Marriage is not a reform school. -- Ann Landers
To innovate is not to reform. -- Edmund Burke
I believe in health care reform. -- Joe Manchin
I'm for tax reform, not tax increases. -- Grover Norquist
The lunatic fringe in all reform movements. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. -- Susana Martinez
I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform, -- Susana Martinez
What we need is fundamental tax reform. -- Rob Portman
The reform of government needs to continue. -- Jim Nussle
Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm largely in favor of financial reform. -- Fareed Zakaria
Self-reform is the only kind that works. -- Mason Cooley
I love reform better than its modes. -- Henry David Thoreau
We will have health care reform in America. -- Dick Durbin
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. -- Oscar Wilde
Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform. -- Oscar Wilde
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values. -- Bill Bradley
It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform. -- Bob Inglis
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. -- Sophie Swetchine
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions. -- Barbara Tuchman
Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform. -- John S. Watson
We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process. -- Patrick McHenry
We must reform society before we can reform ourselves. -- George Bernard Shaw
Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. -- Henry David Thoreau
...the way to reform has always led through prison. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
You do not reform a world by ignoring it. -- George H. W. Bush
The Democratic Party is not the party of reform. -- Richard Lamm
It always takes a scandal to bring about reform. -- Sal Albanese
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing. -- Thomas Carlyle
Input of public judgement for any major tax reform. -- Newt Gingrich
The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform. -- Robert Scheer
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform. -- Edward Young
The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform. -- Earl Browder
You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world. -- Lu Xun
The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform. -- Rahm Emanuel
Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement -- Norm Coleman

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