#reform

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#begun #coherent #conducting #declared #government

The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#heritage #name #national #process #reform

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#administration #before #care #divided #entered

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#approach #capacity #challenge #engaging #error

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#best #does #generally #him #indignation

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#any #changes #context #current #face

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#highlight #i #issue #reform #welfare

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting. ↗

— William Kirby

#daunting #directly #enormously #industry #most

I'm not any kind of social reformer. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#i #kind #reformer #social

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen." (Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521) ↗

— Martin Luther

#christian #conscience #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought #organized-religion