Reform Resistance Quotes

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

Reform means difficulties. History moves often by leaps, then it moves slowly, because the resistance is organizing itself.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.

Those Who Slow Reforms Are Against Europe

Almost every witness that has been before this committee has opposed that reform which would affect his own industry.

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

Germany today is a blocked society, incapable of reform.

The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind, for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth.

Chicago ain’t ready for reform!

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.

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

.d. New York City;, .d. risk;, To hell with reform!

Everywhere, you have a fatigue for reform... that's very serious.

I am goddamned tired of listening to all this babble for reform. America is a hell of a success. Why tinker with it? The country don't need any legislation.

There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.

In post-communist countries, some temporary winners of the reform are found to be an important force in resisting further reforms.