Reform Quotes

"The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided."

"We must correct what we find objectively wrong."

"Unless we break from sectionalism and sticking to precedents, there will be no revival of Japan."

"Only when we have economic growth can we push through fiscal reform."

"Regulatory reform is my agenda. I intend to thoroughly work on this."

"In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared."

"Many European countries and Japan need to free their labour markets and liberalise services to boost productivity growth."

"One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections."

"Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a much more courageous man than a politician who defies Government."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Awake, arise and educate. Smash traditions – liberate!"

Savitribai Phule

"Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire... Caste is a notion, it is a state of the mind."

B. R. Ambedkar

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations, can never effect a reform.”

“The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.”

“We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket science.”

“We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.”

"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."

"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."

Al Smith

"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."

Edmund Burke

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.”