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Reforms are slow, but they never go backward. -- Belva Ann Lockwood
Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance. -- Michael J. Schmoker
Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective. -- Narendra Modi
Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce. -- Oscar Wilde
Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal. -- Paul Frank Baer
Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference. -- Deborah Meier
My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms. -- Nicos Anastasiades
There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe. -- Mario Draghi
We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms. -- John Kline
I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law. -- Andrew Thomas
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. -- Alice Paul
Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
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
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms. -- Ellen G. White
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society. -- Andrei Sakharov
And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode. -- Ben Quayle
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment. -- Steven Pinker
Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more. -- Bonnie Langford
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
I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format. -- Paul Keating
What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era. -- Naomi Wolf
I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself. -- Ben Quayle
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. -- Leland Stanford
I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain. -- Jose Rizal
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
We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system. -- Marco Rubio
He who reforms, God assists. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Truth reforms as well as informs. -- William Jenkyn
Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile. -- Ivica Dacic
Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive. -- Mario Monti
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich. -- Tacitus
The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms. -- Lech Walesa
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well. -- Andy Hargreaves
An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve. -- Don Marquis
Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms. -- George W. Bush
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. -- Richard Flanagan
Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery. -- Russell Kirk
Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor. -- Alexei Navalny
The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms. -- Sylvia Poggioli
Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms. -- Martin Frost
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. -- Edward Young
The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms. -- Lucas Papademos
For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care]. -- Stephen Harper
There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system. -- Barack Obama
Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042. -- Grace Napolitano
Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Getting a lot of applause, announcing military reforms and upgrades. It's a really good speech [of Donald Trump]. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Getting a lot of applause, announcing military reforms and upgrades. It's a really good speech [of Donald Trump]. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young. -- Horace Mann
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms. -- John W. Gardner
If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change. -- Seymour Sarason
If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control. -- Paul Ryan
By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter. -- Mitt Romney
The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy. -- Carlos Mesa
Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak. -- Karl Marx
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit. -- Ed Parker
Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement. -- Steve Bartlett
Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs. -- George Papandreou
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms. -- Mark McKinnon
I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction. -- Lech Walesa
In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again. -- Barack Obama
The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God ... -- Mary Baker Eddy
I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people. -- Mario Monti
As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing. -- Kushal Pal Singh
Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil. -- Janio Quadros
As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly. -- Jo Ann Davis
In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures. -- Narendra Modi
While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people. -- Kshama Sawant
Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Welfare reforms and the whole "happy" exploitation movement are not "baby steps." They are big steps"?in a seriously backward direction. -- Gary L. Francione
Expect the rapidly expanding homeschool movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to rebuild a free society with constitutional protections. -- Ron Paul
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science. -- Rupert Sheldrake
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
Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms. -- Adolf Hitler
None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives. -- Benjamin Whichcote
As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable. -- Jim DeMint
Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. -- John B. S. Haldane
Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. -- John B. S. Haldane
Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies. -- Joel Miller
I don't know how many resolutions from the IMF or G-20 we have already written saying that such [financial] reforms are necessary for new growth. -- Wolfgang Schauble
We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven. -- Narendra Modi
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot. -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Muhammad was not yet establishing a new religion; he was calling for sweeping social reforms. He was not yet preaching monotheism; he was demanding economic justice. -- Reza Aslan
The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today. -- Elliot Richardson
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal. -- Al Gore
I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution. -- Christopher Dodd
He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid. -- Ron Fournier
The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid." -- Ron Fournier
Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions. -- Dean Spade
While Slovakia did not make the first round of NATO membership, as various requirements and reforms are instituted, these actions will enhance the opportunities to join NATO. -- John Mica
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
Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms. -- Temple Grandin
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected -- Thomas Paine
It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms. -- Joni Ernst
We`re looking forward to getting our monitor appointed and we`re looking forward to all of the reforms that will take place under this consent decree. -- Catherine E. Pugh
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We`re not going to end the Medicaid. We`re going to give the governors more control and leeway to bring innovative reforms to make Medicaid work. -- Paul Ryan
Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business. -- John Mica
Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business. -- John Mica
Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor. -- Edward Kennedy
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity. -- Emily Dickinson
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
Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men?s mentality ? in their opinion about femininity ? women?s equality may not be possible. -- Velupillai Prabhakaran

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