Reform Quotes

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that’s why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

The time for common-sense immigration reform is now,

Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.

For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues.

On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.