A Quote by David Remnick

Reform is not a period of retreat.

David Remnick

Quote Topics

Period Reform Retreat

Quote Author

David Remnick
American - Journalist
Born: October 29, 1958

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Samuel Smiles

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

John Gay

Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, while proponents of immigration reform say the Florida Republican was quick to retreat when the going got tough.

Donald Trump

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

Kim Dae Jung

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

Russell Pearce

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Kamala Harris

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.

Lawrence Reed

The honeymoon is the only period when a woman isn't trying to reform her husband.

Evan Esar

Any time you do tax reform, you really need to have a transition period.

Thom Tillis

Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

Aleksandar Hemon

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

Benton MacKaye

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

When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.

Muqtada al Sadr

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.