Top 1200 Political Reform Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

We need comprehensive immigration reform so that we're not creating this cycle of poverty and depression and everything that comes with separating a family.

Trying to explain the First Step Act in prison reform in a tweet or Facebook post is not easy.

One such issue that Arkansans want action taken on is campaign finance reform. And this is a problem that is not really all that complicated.

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

The conversation has become so divisive now on all types of immigration reform that it is really hard to move anything.

The real question should be: what makes a good political poem? The possible answers to that question are both obvious and yet still a little too subjective for anyone to ever fully agree on. What do I most wish to see in a political poet? Sublimated rebellion.

If I ever called myself an activist, I regret it, and I was cornered into it by an industry who couldn't justify me taking up space without saying that I had some kind of radical political agenda because they saw my participation as a radical political thing. Which it was not.

We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together.

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

Real political will for change is achieved when the risks associated with the necessary political and structural changes are articulated at the planning stages, the key stakeholders acknowledge and accept those changes, and all stakeholders participate in the relevant processes.

The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party.

The objective of politics is always to build scenarios in which persons' horizons can be expanded evermore. Any political action that is aimed at restricting individuals' horizons is, as I see it, a regressive action in relation to the political values that I embrace.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.

If Reagan and John Paul II were linked by anything, it was a grand, ambitious, and generous idea of Western political civilization, one in which a democratic Europe would be integrated by multiple economic, political, and cultural links, and held together beneath an umbrella of American hegemony.

We want to do this methodically, smart, starting with border security then looking at immigration reform measures.

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

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

I think we can reform Social Security without raising taxes, which is better for economic growth.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all

We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.

Whether we are in or out of the E.U., we must deliver reform at home in order to compete abroad in the 21st century.

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.

Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.

I've got three little kids at home, and I'm trying to save this country from itself. I'm not here to play political power games, and I've had enough of people playing political power games, and this has just gone on too long.

We need welfare reform to get people back to work and provide proper support for those that can't.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.

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.

So long as our land is occupied it is the right of the Palestinian people and their factions to combine resistance and political activities. Resistance and its arms are directed against the occupation while political activity is part of re-arranging the Palestinian home.

What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no art culture, and we've long considered politics nebbish-y and hopelessly unsexy. So a lot of what would be considered political activism is channeled into cultural work.

Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

I still passionately support comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and equal citizenship.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

Our political system encourages that. We don't have proportional representation. There's little renewal in our political class and it's always the same faces. There's also a lack of morals - it's one affair after the other. A system like that cannot be successful.

As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China’s reform.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

In 2000, Trump could have won the Reform Party nomination. I chaired his presidential exploratory committee.

Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you're never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better.

Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted.

When you report on Wall Street and health-care reform... what could be more relevant to people's lives?

I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.

People understand that any major reform to pensions is likely to create losers as well as winners.

Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.