Political Reforms Quotes

When I started 'NOTA,' I didn't know a thing about Tamil politics.

Constitutional Government in Naples is hopeless. What would suit us, would be an enlightened despotism—such a Government as Murat's might have ripened into had he stayed. We owe him nearly all the progress that we have made during the last three or four centuries. He gave us open legal procedure, the abolition of privileges, the diminution of ecclesiastical property, and the few roads which we possess. Now all is going backwards

The reforms we achieved did not enjoy the support of everybody, but they did receive the support of the majority needed to pass them ...

Modi could have done wonders in the country because he had a majority government. He, however, only changed the names of the schemes implemented by the Congress.

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

Let Rahul Gandhi become PM if he can. We experimented with Narendra Modi and look where we have landed. Let's experiment with Rahul Gandhi, or anybody. It can't be worse than this.

The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.

What we did say is that it is up to the Syrians themselves to decide how to run the country, how to introduce the reforms, what kind reforms, without any outside interference.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

People have seen the Modi government's track record, and now they believe that if we say something, it will happen.

[Writing about Napoleon Bonaparte:] That infernal creature who is the curse of the human race becomes every day more and more abominable.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

Political reforms, without exception, have a down side.

The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.

Musharraf and his own government, his close advisers, they have been untainted by sort of any serious allegation of corruption and they have been in power now for three years, which -- and in the context of Pakistan is a bit of a record, you know? I mean there are not too many governments who have achieved that

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

We cannot hope to substitute armed power for the kind of political and economic social changes that offer the best resistance to Communism. If the necessary reforms have not been forthcoming over the past seven years to stop Communist subversion and rebellion, then I do not see how American combat troops can do it today.

Serbia stands firmly on the EU path.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude has to change. But in order for it to change, there has to be radical improvement in the quality of the intelligence produced by the Mexican government.

I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by the surrealists.

President el-Sisi of Egypt took over in a very complicated environment. He needed to give a new direction. It is quite a difficult job.

The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress's corruption.