Top 1200 Political Reform Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Tort reform is important. We need to prevent trial lawyers from killing good jobs.

I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to do it.

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.

Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political history - or, for that matter, distant political history.

The Seanad question was one element of a process of change and reform to politics that government has been pursuing.

Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.

Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform.

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform.

Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words.

Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer.

If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because the viewer wants to create a type of narrative around the political theme when they look at work depicting black and brown models.

Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.

The most misreported and misunderstood thing about the tea party is its political leanings. The tea party has no political leaning. It stands straight for limited government, low taxes, and liberty for all.

But I can tell you another engine for growth and job creation would be comprehensive immigration reform.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish.

Only in Washington can the pursuit of a conservative agenda, with centrist policies, be depicted as liberal reform.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in the minority in this House and in the country, were to organize as a political party, they would compel the majority to organize as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

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

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.

My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.

In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply enough attack those wretched crooks who would like to make religion an implement to perform political or rather business services for them.

every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.

If we could have a really good debate with the states and the federal government on tax reform I'd be up for that.

We must continue to stand up for what's right and push for bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform.

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.