This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass.
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.
. . . the way to reform has always led through prison.
My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.
Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.
Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.
Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.
Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.
A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.
On the strength of strong public support, I will have (the postal reform bills) passed within this session.
The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.
A major institutional reform is the move away from merely planning, to transforming India. The setting up of NITI Aayog, is a step in this direction.
It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.
As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.
Self-reform is the only kind that works.