#reform

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#anything #artificial #combinations #committed #ever

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for. ↗

— Mae West

#man #marry #reform #schools

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right. ↗

— Julia Gillard

#i #know #never #reform #right

We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions... and we need to do it under tight control. ↗

— Wu Yi

#control #economic #exchange #exchange rate #good

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

— Andrew Young

#fool #heaven #hold #idlers #lay

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#candid #choices #costs #make #must

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#church #dry #half #ice #instead

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aid #american #countries #democracy #embrace

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#democracy #freedom #heroic #i #nations

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force