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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital.
It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel themselves the victims of unjust sectional discrimination.
Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.
The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.
Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.
Like so many of my generation and those younger, I have spent most of my life in the E.U., and my instincts were naturally for reform from within.
What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.
[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.
When I was elected to Congress, this was the No. 1 issue businesses brought up. They said that if we want this country to succeed, we need immigration reform.
Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.
Technology should be used for better purposes, for people's overall welfare and development of state and country, instead of misusing it to win elections.
Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.
Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.
Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.
Conversations with my counterparts in Europe have made clear that many of them recognize NATO's limitations and understand the need for reform.
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.
This resounding cry of 'welfare to work' enrages me because something like 75% or 80% of people who are on government assistance are already working.
If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.
From food security to housing, from job creation to healthcare, from financial inclusion to insurance - we have adopted a holistic approach towards social welfare.
The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.
He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.
Received left-wing wisdom holds that the police cannot lower crime, only massive welfare spending and the redistribution of wealth can.
Divorce is marital welfare.It’s just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn’t do enough research before they got married.
We are not all the same; we don't think alike; and we have the right to openly express those differences in ways that, hopefully, will contribute to our community's welfare.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
Conservatives are, I think, correct to highlight family stability as a fundamental issue that goes to the welfare of children as much as food stamps or anything else.
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
An open, market-oriented, and peaceful Iraq could also advance reform and growth across the entire region.
We need to reform our land use policies to build more housing in urban centers and near transit.
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.
If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
What type of politics is the Congress practising, wherein its leaders commit the sin of looting money meant for the welfare of pregnant women and poor children?
Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
If immigration reform doesn't happen, that doesn't say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn't pass it.
I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.
Oxfam believes that any global talks to reform tax rules must include all countries, including the poorest.
I have come from outside Delhi, but I give you an assurance that the people in the Government are very capable. I want to awaken and unite that power for the welfare of nation.
Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to be together.
