Reform Quotes - Page 19

• To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

  John Negroponte

  Thinking, Election, Bent

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• Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

  Peter Mandelson

  Needs, Economic, Social

  "Full text: Peter Mandelson's speech on a new consensus for Europe", www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2005.

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• We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

  Arne Duncan

  Recovery, Years, Dimes

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• I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

  Paul Krugman

  Fun, Law, Had Fun

  "Going to Extreme". www.nytimes.com. March 25, 2010.

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• Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Country, Fighting, America

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• Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

  Jim Clyburn

  Believe, Government, Giving

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• Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

  Lindsey Graham

  Real, Choices, Needs

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• 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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• There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

  Ezra Cornell

  Female, Habit, Economy

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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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• But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Thinking, Imf, Pressure

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• The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.

  Raul Grijalva

  People, Majority, Immigration

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• Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

  Laura Miller

  Real, Cities, People

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• Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

  John Mica

  People, Missing, Needs

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• On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Canada, Structure

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Numbers, United States, Campaigns

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• BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

  William P. Leahy

  Community, Catholic, Church

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• It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Art, Strategy, Process

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

  Bob Riley

  Confidence, Fighting, Simple

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• I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

  Lionel Blue

  Grateful, Christianity, Good Things

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• It's not enough to be famous. You have to be professional enough to make reform.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Fighter, Enough

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• Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Evil, Doe

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.491, Modern Library

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• I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Military, Aggravation, Political

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