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If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.
You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.
Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.
I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.
Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.
Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.
I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.
It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.
I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.
The message I would say to China is, 'Carry on with the reform; carry on with the change you are making.'
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.
We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.
What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].
You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.
Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
On the strength of strong public support, I will have (the postal reform bills) passed within this session.
Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
I think in 2012 one of the primary issues that will get a lot of discussion will be comprehensive tax reform.
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.
Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.
I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.
We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.
Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.
Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.
The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.
You have to reform the visa program. The chain migration system doesn't work. You need a guest workers program.
Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.
The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.
The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.
Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.
I am not arguing that we should never use legal reform as a tactic. Instead, I argue that it should not be a goal.
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.