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"Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep."
"While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid."
"To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble."
"Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another."
"You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return."
"Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once."
"Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform."
"All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms."
"The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really address the incentives, the system is still dysfunctional and there are still behavioural issues that need to be addressed."
"He who reforms, God assists."
"The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day"
"Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young."