Reform Quotes - Page 6

• Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

  John Ruskin

  Education, School, Diversity

  Unto This Last Essay 2 (1862)

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• Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

  Paul Ryan

  Partido, Gente, Política

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• People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

  Paul Ryan

  Winning, People, Ridiculous

  "Fussbudget" por Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. 6 de agosto de 2012.

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• If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

  Paul Ryan

  Debt, Propose, Budgets

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• I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

  Paul Ryan

  Strong, America, Optimism

  Aceptación de la candidatura a vicepresidente en la Convención Nacional Republicana, pronunciada el 29 de agosto de 2012 en Tampa (Florida).

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• A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year.

  Paul Ryan

  Winning, Years, America

  "Paul Ryan está fingiendo hasta que lo consiga", por Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. 23 de mayo de 2012.

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• The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

  Lech Walesa

  People, Painful, Poland

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• But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

  Scott Walker

  Government, Shrinking, Want

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• Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.

  J. C. Watts

  Years, Organization, Focus

  "Gingrich Picks Up Endorsement From J.C. Watts". "Hannity" with Mark Steyn, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2011.

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

  Mae West

  Amor, Divertido, Matrimonio

  Mae West (1967). "El ingenio y la sabiduría de Mae West"

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• America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.

  George Will

  Government, America, Immigration

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• Los sindicatos de profesores que bloquean la reforma escolar han dañado gravemente la marca sindical. El público ya no ve a los sindicatos como sus amigos, y mucho menos como sus defensores. Los ven como corruptos, intransigentes y más interesados en proteger su influencia política dentro del Partido Demócrata que en proteger a sus miembros o incluso a los escolares.

  Juan Williams

  Teacher, Children, Block

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• Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

  Juan Williams

  Fighting, Immigration, Agendas

  "Gun Action Central to Obama's Presidency". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 18, 2013.

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• And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.

  Juan Williams

  Hurt, Keys, Upset

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• Los demócratas no pueden ganar elecciones sin captar los votos de los votantes indecisos de mentalidad independiente. Y ahí es donde descartar al Tea Party como un grupo de chiflados racistas resulta autodestructivo. La indignación del Tea Party por la reforma sanitaria, el gasto deficitario y los derechos desbocados no es una preocupación marginal.

  Juan Williams

  Carrera, Partido, Independiente

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• President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.

  Juan Williams

  Teacher, School, Winning

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• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  Wendell Willkie

  Military, War, Race

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

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• Mi recuerdo más feliz de la infancia fue mi primer cumpleaños en el reformatorio. Este profesor se interesó por mí. De hecho, me hizo los primeros regalos de cumpleaños que recibí: una caja de Cracker Jacks y un bote de betún ABC.

  Flip Wilson

  Birthday, Teacher, Memories

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• It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

  Ron Wyden

  Choices, Competition, Wanted

  "Missing the Point" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2010.

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• With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

  Ron Wyden

  Real, Ideas, Giving

  "A Plan for Health Reform" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2007.

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• No tengo ningún problema con las soluciones tecnológicas a los problemas sociales. La pregunta clave para mí es: "¿Quién las pone en práctica?" y "¿Qué tipo de políticas de reforma introducen las soluciones tecnológicas por la puerta de atrás?".

  Evgeny Morozov

  Keys, Doors, Kind

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• Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

  Federico Bastiat

  Thinking, Judging, Humanity

  "La Loi (The Law)". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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• La única forma en que una mujer puede reformar a un hombre es aburriéndolo tanto que pierda todo interés posible en la vida.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Break Up

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.119, First Avenue Editions

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• I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

  Wilkie Collins

  Children, Ideas, Machines

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.31, e-artnow sro

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• To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

  Thomas Paine

  Age, Arguing, Reason

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.190, e-artnow

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