Top 137 Reforming Quotes & Sayings

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

When it comes to reforming the way our skies are regulated, we must be certain that as we work to solve specific problems, we do not create others.

Age is reforming our bodies to better roll with the punches!

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

I just think that Stephen Miller is completely tone deaf when it comes to reforming our immigration system.

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

Spoiling my ballot paper is the only way I can see of stripping the system of legitimacy, shaking it up, and reforming it so that it favours citizens.

There are limits to reforming a system that is dominated by these massive and rapacious corporations.

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.

Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

We should be reforming our entitlement programs to empower people.

I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.

Fixing our schools must begin with reforming the way we attract talent to teaching.

Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

As far as the bands that are reforming now, it's always nice to see old friends and hear some of those great songs, but it's just not our thing.

Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.

The American Health Care Act is not perfect, but it is an important step in reforming our broken healthcare system to help families in our district.

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

I have always considered myself of the reforming centre-left.

I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.

Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.

My whole deal is reforming, changing, shaking up Washington. It sure needs it.

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

The need to change our country's fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

A reforming liberal leader in Russia is the Holy Grail of Kremlinology, but the search for one is as misguided and hopeless as that for the relic of the Last Supper.

I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Reforming PERA will strengthen and improve Colorado's all-important long term standing with credit rating agencies.

Artists have kids, mortgages, or drug habits, and they got to do what they got to do. But reforming and the reunion stuff isn't me. I'm a 'moving forward' person.

The Official Secrets Act 1989 may need reforming for the digital era, but I would argue that at its heart there should be protection for whistleblowers.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.

There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.

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.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

We should be challenging and reforming our legislation around the world to actually combat hostile actors, whether they're domestic or foreign.

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on.

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

Ukraine will be reforming its energy sector because we want to integrate into Europe, ... We have conducted all the talks and reached an agreement with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Poland and Georgia.