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By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.
I try to walk in the lane God wants for me, working on immigration, prison reform, strengthening the family through my ministry.
First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.
While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
The fact is I tried for years to work with the financial industry on reasonable swipe fee reform, but the industry wouldn't have it.
A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
India's history and destiny, India's legacy and future, are a function of coexistence and conciliation, of reform and reconciliation.
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.
History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.
To me, every decision needn't be a 'big-bang' reform but a signal of proactive decision-making and removal of red tape and bureaucracy.
Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.
No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.
What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform.
In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.
The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.
My administration's policies on regulatory reform, tax reform, trade policies, will return significant manufacturing jobs to our country.
I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.
I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.
Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.
Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.
It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.
For Republicans, tort reform and its health care analogue, malpractice reform, speak to the goal of stronger economic growth and lower costs.
Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.
Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.
Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.
The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.
I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.
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.
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.