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We want to reform hospitals, ensure better care of the elderly, increase maternity leave to one year... tighten policy regarding foreigners and, from day one, put a lid on taxes.

We want reform to pass. We've worked very hard to come up with reform that works, that reforms the abuses that have happened.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold onto your wallets.

The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

The reform should give more medium and small countries more opportunities to participate in the decision-making of the UN Security Council.

The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.

The reform of the exchange rate has been proved a successful one.

The reform of Japan starts today. There is no tomorrow for the Koizumi LDP government, which spends all its time in internal power struggles.

The reform mandate is probably not going to be as strong as it would have been under an outright victory by Merkel.

The Reform Fund was designed to help the PA deliver essential public services under fiscal duress, while it continues to stabilize its public finances and advance fiscal reforms .

The reform concept was today deepened and accelerated,

The reform also contributed to the resolving of the imbalance development of the world economy,

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.

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.

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

We will have health care reform in America.

The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay...

For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

No true reform has ever come to pass Unchallenged by a liar and an ass.

They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from a macromanaged, top-down economy to a market-managed, micromanaged type of economy, with all the potential corruption issues, SOE [state-owned enterprise] reform, and market reform that come with it.

We want to build and grow the Reform Party. Ross, instead of fighting us and opposing us, come on and help us.

What we're doing is protecting elderly disabled immigrants in nursing homes, ... They're not part of the welfare reform debate. The welfare reform debate is about moving people from welfare to work.

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

The only possibility of reform in Los Angeles, which is a 'see no, hear no evil' city, is if there is the glaring eye of outside investigators from Sacramento and from Washington D.C.,

We're asking for responsible immigration reform and not just punitive measures.

There is broad consensus in Congress to reform the Endangered Species Act,

There is bipartisan support for immigration reform in South Florida, including Gov. Jeb Bush, including the legislature, including our mayor in Miami. We in South Florida don't have to turn people's minds around.

We set up a $100 million grant program that districts could apply for, ... Teachers could apply for $3,000 in extra pay if they would teach in chronically low-performing schools. It was an incentive to get good teachers into tough schools. It was a pretty good reform bill that just didn't pass, but we made progress as we went along.

The Panel's income tax reform plan would make some positive changes such as eliminating the double-taxation of dividends and treating U.S. businesses on a territorial basis with regard to their foreign profits. Both of these changes would increase U.S. business competitiveness and spur investment. However, on both the individual and business parts of this simplified income tax, the proposed top tax rates were still too high. For example, the proposed 32 percent corporate rate would still be higher than the 28 percent average corporate tax rate in Europe.

The panel has set back, rather than advanced, the prospects for reform by failing to offer realistic proposals that fairly distribute the tax burden across income levels and the states,

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.

We live in a pragmatic world of political economic reform where across-the-board opening is not as easy or even politically feasible. I'm suggesting a more open, neutral approach that looks at the real world and says each country is different.

We have in our negotiations today achieved a breakthrough which we hope will lead to meaningful reform in these discriminatory practices,

There are two proposed bills in the works right now. We're hoping that with continued public pressure the legislature will vote to reform the property tax system.

There are those who want to conclude the Security Council reform is over. They are mistaken. Reform is a process and moves in a continuum step by step.

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

When I was a State senator in Florida, I accomplished some tort reform in the area of nursing homes because we had nursing homes leaving the State.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change ...

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

We need a strong voice in New York who knows the U.N. and who can advance our reform agenda. But we don't need a voice which people may not be inclined to listen to, ... And I fear that, knowing your reputation -- and your reputation known well at the U.N. -- people will be inclined to tune you out.

When we see the everyday security of the Israeli people vastly improving, we'll know real reform has occurred.

The planets are lined up. We have the indictments of leaders of both parties on the way to prison. If we aren't going to get election reform this year, it will be a long time before we get it in Wisconsin.

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

We're glad that the comptroller is supporting many of the budget reform initiatives the governor has advocated for years, such as greater openness and transparency, a balanced enacted budget, higher rainy day reserves, binding revenue forecasts, and moving the start of the fiscal year.

We're confident that the Indonesian military is continuing on its reform path and we want to assist in this process.

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

Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.

let us be frank with each other, and the peoples of the United Nations. We have not yet achieved the sweeping and fundamental reform that I, and many others, believe is required. Sharp differences, some of them substantive and legitimate, have played their part in preventing that.

Making agricultural markets more accessible is the most fundamental reform that needs to emerge from the Doha round of WTO negotiations.

Making important energy policy that affects national security, the economy and public health is too important to be done behind the closed doors of a conference committee that avoids public hearings or the scrutiny of the full committees of each chamber. This is coming at a time when members of both parties are talking about their commitment to reform Congress to make their work more transparent and to curtail the influence of lobbyists.

less about reform of the ESA, or to protect species, and more about making it easier for the exploitation of the environment.

Many market participants are hoping for the FDP to take on the role of a pacemaker, a force that pushes for reforms, Merkel wouldn't be able to push through her reform program.

Many people have used the argument that opening up trade leads to political reform and social reform.

Sen. Shelby does continue to hope to be able to pass strong GSE regulatory reform legislation in 2006.

So far, this campaign has been very one-sided; the only thing the people have heard about the governor's reform agenda is what they heard from union bosses. Now, they will hear from the governor and learn why he believes these reforms are critical.

On an ideological level, Senator Nelson is not in touch with the mainstream of Florida, ... He has voted against tax relief that has been passed by the Republican majority in Congress. He votes to protect the trial lawyers against reform of frivolous lawsuits. We think a Republican challenger is going to do very well if they contrast his record to the Republican positions.

Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy.

should be a wake-up call to us all that more generation and more transmission are badly needed and this reform will help achieve those goals.

Similarly, if the summit outcome doesn't include the need to control small arms, which are the real weapons of destruction, and does not include the need for all developed nations to spend 0.7 percent of gross national income (GNI) in overseas aid, this historic chance for reform will result in failure,

She came out from that very pleased with the conversation. Nobody more than Carol Alvarado wants this investigation to run its full course, come to completion because she views this investigation as the first step on the road to reform to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

Since the tax reform in 1994, China has applied two tax systems to foreign and domestic companies. Although both systems stipulate a tax rate of 33 percent, foreign companies could pay much less tax than domestic ones because of more preferential treatment.

Most studies submitted to the FDA have been conducted by the manufacturers of implants who obviously have a vested interested and whose findings are frequently biased and misleading. We must reform this heavy reliance on industry, which interferes with sound scientific decision-making by the FDA.

Missouri is a great example of a state that has taken substantive steps to fix its legal system. In the last year, Missouri has passed one of the most comprehensive legal reform packages in the country, including legislation that keeps people from shopping around the state for the friendliest courts in which to sue.

Mr. Blunt played an extremely important part in getting through the most important immigration reform bill Congress has seen in a decade.

My feeling is that the US domestic support proposal will have a comparable effect to the European Union's 2003 reform of its Common Agricultural Policy,

Of all of the items which could provide an economic stimulus to the U.S. economy, I think asbestos reform would be the most important.

One thing that they all do have in common, though, is the effect that the state has had on it this year. The most recent state ... budget, House Bill 66, had a lot of sweeping tax reform in it and this -- while well-intended, hoping to bring in more business into the state -- has had a disastrous effect on a lot of schools.

Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans.

Postal reform is something that will decide Japan's future: whether Japan moves forward to smaller government, leaving what we can to the private sector, or whether it goes toward bigger government.

Only by so doing can the reform gain extensive support and enjoy a solid foundation,

On major economic policies, the campaign has made clear that both parties share the same basic concepts of reform and small government.

One of the most critical issues facing agriculture right now is the immigration reform that was just taken up by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. The House passed an immigration bill at the end of 2005 that could be very harmful to agriculture.

I wouldn't go as far as to say Germany is the reform engine of Europe, but it is making slow progress.

I would be surprised if there was a complete about-face. Japan has gone too far down the road to reform to turn away from it.

I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.

If we don't pay attention to this Reform Party and people that are going to the Reform Party and try to get them back into the Republican Party, we could pay another very serious price,

If we had an anti-business Congress that went after pension reform aggressively, it could have a devastating impact on Wall Street.

If we reorganize and reform the enormous human and technological intelligence assets America has, as the commission has recommended, we will be able to see, hear and stop the terrorist attacks against us before they occur,

If we regroup and reclaim the mantle of reform and change, we are likely to win '06 and '08. If we do not regroup, we are likely to have a very difficult '06 and '08.

If we do not reform Social Security, taxes will have to be doubled or tripled in order for the system to keep its promises to future retirees.

If we here in this chamber don't work together to reform the government, the people will rise up and reform it themselves. And I will join them. And I will fight with them.

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.