Top 471 Reforms Quotes & Sayings

Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.

I will continue to decisively promote reforms that will promote growth, and at the same time, I will continue to negotiate hard in order to avoid any reforms that would undermine growth.

From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which were aimed at changing the very, very dehumanising aspects. Giving greater freedom of movement, giving private property ownership within so-called white South Africa also to blacks. Abolishing the concept of job reservation on the basis of race and colour. Allowing free organisation for trade unions, also black trade unions.

Truth reforms as well as informs.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

We must advance regulatory reforms.

The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them.

Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

You need a real crisis before you have reforms.

I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

We do not need mindless spending bills with no reforms attached.

Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU and the Commission... but every nation has to have the courage to broach such structural reforms and speak clearly about them without making people be afraid.

We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.

Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.

Let's replace Obamacare with reforms that put you back in charge of your own healthcare.

Some of my colleagues are unwilling to vote for any Dodd-Frank reforms, partly out of the political fear that any reforms will be seen as reducing regulations on the financial sector.

It is incorrect to say there have been no reforms at all in Burma; there have of course been reforms, but we still need to do more for the people. To become a democratic society we have to continually be reforming.

What we did say is that it is up to the Syrians themselves to decide how to run the country, how to introduce the reforms, what kind reforms, without any outside interference.

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

While the ACA's insurance expansions and reforms represent a great leap forward for the U.S., it is also true that when fully implemented by 2018, the U.S. will still have the most inefficient, wasteful, and unfair health insurance system of any advanced nation, even with the ACA reforms.

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.

We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.

The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals involved (the Golden Rule), and because they push the envelope, moving us closer to the compassionate world that all animal rights activists are working toward...On the other hand, working toward welfare reforms has the immediate benefit of helping improve animals' lives today and acts as a crucial stepping stone toward animal liberation.

The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible.

Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.

Education reforms must be the priority for governments.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

We are very supportive of the economic reforms that the Chinese government have talked about.

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today.

The reason I entered the election race was to promote reforms. For us who engage in business, we will be severely affected if financial and structural reforms don't proceed.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

He who reforms, God assists.

Electoral reforms are necessary if India has to be rid of black money.

All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms.

Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.

I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country.

We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.

Labour reforms are not anti-worker.

This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.

If I take you back to the Nineties, our party came up with very bold reforms in the country, economic reforms. They were really revolutionary reforms.

There's every reason to think that whatever their political leanings, Americans will be highly receptive to numerous reforms designed to improve health, safety, economic security, environmental quality and democratic self-government - at least if those reforms do not eliminate their freedom of choice.

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Now the masses of Latin America are electing governments they feel can take forward the democratic reforms of the last 20 years, and transform them into social and economic reforms. This is, I think, extremely important, because it also means that the left has abandoned the revolutionary solution proposed by Che Guevara and has taken the democratic path.

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.