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To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system. (Quote by - Johnny Isakson)

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared. (Quote by - Zhu Rongji)

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. (Quote by - Tom Daschle)

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system. (Quote by - Joschka Fischer)

We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena. (Quote by - Anna Lindh)

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. (Quote by - MoliFre)

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform. (Quote by - Michael McCaul)

To innovate is not to reform. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only. (Quote by - Bob Riley)

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. (Quote by - Clara Barton)

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on. (Quote by - Harri Holkeri)

The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men. (Quote by - David Lloyd George)

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. (Quote by - George Orwell)

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for. (Quote by - Mae West)

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. (Quote by - William E. Gladstone)

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)

You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform. (Quote by - David Cameron)

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business. (Quote by - Jim DeMint)

Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism (Quote by - Tony Blair)

Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return. (Quote by - Saki)

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. (Quote by - Andrew Mellon)

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