Reform Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

  John Goodman

  Children, Years, Add

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• We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

  Rodrigo Rato

  Encouragement, Italian, Government

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• 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

  Gratitude, Prayer, Memories

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1191, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

  Diane Ravitch

  Complacency, Obstacles, American Education

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• Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Mistake, Grieving

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• If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Ocean, Heart

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• The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Reading, Three, Christ

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.248, Library of Alexandria

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• Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Mistake, Writing, Two

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• As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

  Henry Adams

  Class, America, Boredom

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams”, p.200, Harvard University Press

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• Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Moving, Peculiar, Lines

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1222, Manonmani Publishers

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• Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Social Reform, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1073, Manonmani Publishers

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• Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Character, Men, Hopeless

  Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.14, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former combatants, and support the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes.

  Kofi Annan

  Home, Rights, Blue

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• A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Criminals, Citizens, Jurisprudence

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1871). “The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Times to the Present: with Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World and the Form of Administration which Will Secure this Consummation. Also, Papers on Human Equality, as Represented by Labor and Its Representative, Money: and the Meaning and Significance of Life from a Scientific Standpoint, with Its Prophecies for the Great Future”

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• May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Joy, Leader

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.218, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

  Grace Napolitano

  Able, Social, Obligation

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• I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals involved (the Golden Rule), and because they push the envelope, moving us closer to the compassionate world that all animal rights activists are working toward...On the other hand, working toward welfare reforms has the immediate benefit of helping improve animals' lives today and acts as a crucial stepping stone toward animal liberation.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Animal, Rights

  "Getting from A to Z: Why Animal Activists Should Support Incremental Reforms to Help Animals" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2011.

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