"Self-reform automatically brings about social reform."
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"Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce."
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"'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As soon as you hear the word 'Reform', you should reach for your wallet and see who's lifting it."
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"We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States."
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"Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies."
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"I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution"
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"Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself."
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"Every reform was once a private opinion."
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"The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession"
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"The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it."
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"If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world."
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"To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way."
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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."
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"Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive."
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"To innovate is not to reform."
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"I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge."
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"There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were."
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"He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions."
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"Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible."
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"Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age."
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