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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Oscar Wilde

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe that changing government power is the true reform.

Ichiro Ozawa

This survey is a clear message to the citizens of California that our out-of-control legal system is hurting our state's economy and in urgent need of reform.

David Houston

There's a risk that the conservatives could signal a scaling-down of reform ambitions in various areas.

Thorsten Polleit

They knew that they had to grab this reform mantle or they would be steam rolled by the Democrats on the corruption issue.

Gloria Borger

T hat bill is absolutely horrible. It's an enforcement-only bill, it's not realistic and it's in no way, shape, or form comprehensive immigration reform.

Kat Rodriguez

It won't lead to any dramatic change of course for Germany. But I still see a good potential for reform policies.

Klaus Zimmermann

We're delighted that the Legislature is serious about passing a real payday loan reform law.

Patty Wentz

Clearly Alabama has a lot more work to do in the area of legal reform. As good as our economy is right now, just imagine where we would be if we had more significant (legal) reforms.

Marty Sullivan

The reform of government needs to continue.

Jim Nussle

The reform program is not about the next few years, but being able to maintain our society for the next generation. We may well lose years in the reform process, and we can't afford to lose any time.

Lutz Erbring

There is no reform except through jihad, ... We have to realize the nature of this conflict: Our enemies do not agree with or approve of our rights.

Ayman Al zawahiri

For me the problem is not political. The problem is social inequality. There is a mass of people who depend on patronage, and that allows our feudal political system to survive. So we cannot reform the causes of mass poverty.

Sheila Coronel

This is an all hands on deck struggle for reform. We need every reform minded-supporter pounding the pavement.

Todd Harris

I have not been told where to go yet. But no matter what the position is, I'm determined to accomplish Japan's reform and create a Japan we can be proud of.

Shinzo Abe

There is a need to improve the competence of patent agencies and enforcement procedures in developing world countries, but the basis for granting a patent and the TRIPS agreement do not need reform.

Trevor Jones

They're very much committed to moving forward with market reform.

Paul Calello

Croatia can prosecute war crimes and those who committed crimes on the Croatian side, ... Partiality is now excluded. Croatia is implementing the reform of the judiciary.

Stipe Mesic

I think it's absolutely essential and inevitable that we are going to reform those programs. How, is another question. There's very little interest, now.

Rudolph Penner

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.

Vinod Thomas

If the violence in the Niger Delta subsides, the outcome of the presidential election in 2007 proves benign for political stability, and progress on structural reform continues, the ratings could improve.

Farouk Soussa

Unfortunately, his successor is likely to face equally strong challenges over the next few years, whether or not pension reform legislation passes.

Doug Elliott

Saudi's slowing down its plans in Chinese oil market is mainly because of the Chinese government's hesitation about reform of the industry.

Li Guohong

Sugar using industry has been fighting a very long-term battle in this field, and I'm happy to see that finally the EU has moved and reform is now on the horizon.

Karsten Keunecke

If we disagree on the how and when (of a boycott), we're united in the strategy of seeking comprehensive immigration reform.

Angelica Salas

Italy needs radical reform to cut its unit labor costs and regain competitiveness, but that can be a very painful process.

Silvia Pepino

We're all for reform. But you have to do it right.

Lance Corcoran

As a practical matter, it has proven difficult to either reform or abolish the CIA, ... The logical alternative may be to simply create an entirely new agency.

Steven Aftergood

The biggest issue facing the new secretary of labor should be the complete reform of the state employment services led by the federal government. If we do that, if we can reform those state job services, we can recapture 20 billion hours of lost productive time.

Audrey Freedman

He was a principled foreign secretary, he was reforming leader of the house and even when he resigned regretfully from the government he did on principle he did it with style and elegance.

Dr. John Prescott

I've been very instrumental in pushing for the reform in our intelligence system, to have a national director where they've got clout over these 15 different agencies. We look back prior to 9/11 and there was some information out there that wasn't being shared just because the system is antiquated and wasn't working. We've got to fix that and we're in the process of doing it.

Leonard Boswell

He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The prime minister will meet with the leaders of the opposition parties later today to sort out a common stand on political reform.

Sudarat Keyuraphan

Pennsylvania has one of the worst Open Records Law in the country. Legislative reform is really necessary in this area.

Teri Henning

They are friends of mine. I have argued with them. I think they really have slowed this process down, and they brought fair reform of the tax system to a standstill.

David Dewhurst

Koizumi has been very cunning and sly by showing this drama as reform-minded forces versus old-fashioned forces.

Takao Toshikawa

The next few days could be a productive cooling off period, when senators work out their differences and commit to getting something done on immigration reform, but we will see. We hope that they will come back to Washington committed to reform, because we need it this year.

Austin Perez

Civil liberties, human rights, political reform - that's front-page material. And I want 80 percent of the news to be local.

Hisham Kassem

The other players did not testify before this committee, ... We are asking for these results in the context of Palmeiro's appearance before the Government Reform Committee.

Rob White

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

Russell B. Long

Even small pieces of campaign finance reform are difficult. There's a lot of different interests in Springfield, and there's not a huge appetite from any corner for real campaign finance reform. We certainly saw that when the bill was introduced last session.

Doug Scofield

One of his greatest opportunities now is to push agricultural reform.

Gerald Curtis

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

Andrew Gray

We consider that the gradual nature of the reform provides a fairly protected environment for European manufacturers over the next four years, and we continue to believe that full deregulation in the EU market for sugar production and processing is remote.

Olaf Toelke

The situation CEIB faces today is quite different from 11 years ago when it was first founded, so we need to push out reform to create favorable conditions for its further development.

Li Ruogu

It's a fantastic achievement. You feel a great sense of industry there, and you get a sense they're looking toward the next challenge. That's to get greater Germany working again. The political will for structural reform seems to be there.

John Llewellyn

I'm voting for the LDP because I'm in favor of postal reform. Koizumi is quite aggressive. I've liked him for a really long time. It's because he speaks his thoughts quite clearly -- there aren't that many people in Japan who are like that.

Kaori Hagino

The land reform program has been a disaster. It was a necessary process -- we needed to redistribute to deal with historical factors -- but because it was ad hoc, violent and destructive, it didn't result in economic growth and social integration.

Brian Nkarogo

There is a person who insists upon making reform every time he opens his mouth but tradition and culture should be protected resolutely.

Takeo Hiranuma

[Enacting reform] has to be done step by step, ... All these reforms, you can make good arguments for them, but there are bigger fish to fry as far as both parties are concerned.

Bill Whalen

What you had at that time was a president really interested in tax reform and a very skillful Treasury secretary (James Baker) interested in advancing the ideal.

Joseph Thorndike

Menendez is the undisputed party boss in Hudson County, and we're going to be talking a lot about ethics reform.

Jill Hazelbaker

If people want reform, if they want true reform, they have the opportunity to get it right now. It is truly in the hands of the people.

Ted Costa

The Hail Mary portion is the wholesale reform of Medicare. The idea . . . has technical problems to be solved, and it involves concepts around which there is not a major consensus.

Aaron Henry

It was a huge factor driving up business costs, so getting that reform was a big one for business.

Gregg Durham

Tremendous disappointment of millions of taxpayers and teachers and parents over this Legislature's failure to act on property tax relief and education reform.

Patrick Perry

The Egyptian government may have made a mistake in releasing these people prematurely. You won't reform major terrorist groups. They will just operate at a smaller level that the government can't monitor effectively.

Sajjan Gohel

Reform is China's second revolution.

Deng Xiaoping

Financial incentives alone have never proven to be long-term, effective solutions to health-care reform.

Harry Jacobson

This scandal has the potential to have a huge effect on K Street for decades. It will not only further shape people's opinions about lobbying but could also lead to reform.

Alex Knott

Reform of the courts, a return to democracy and the demise of the 'crooks' currently running the country.

Imran Khan

It doesn't mean that Arnold Schwarzenegger's political career is over. But he had a mandate to reform state government, and he no longer has that mandate. It's tragic.

Darry Sragow

This is not tax reform. You can argue about how soon the problem is, or how big the problem is, but you can't argue that it won't be a problem.

Mike Tanner

Koizumi beat up on the old LDP and cast the Democratic Party as anti-reform. The Democrats should have stressed more that Koizumi's reforms were not enough.

Yasunori Sone

You can't want reform more than a country itself does.

Gene Sperling

We want to give the prime minister ... a chance to come to a dialogue with all other political parties to set a firm commitment to political reform, and we'll await his response.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

Richard Shelby

The other two candidates are good people but neither one of them would bring real reform.

John Shadegg

It is unlikely that reform-minded politicians will have a lot to say in the new government.

Andreas Rees

If you do not have a good political system at home, you cannot attract support from your neighbors. If China wants to increase its soft power, it must have political reform.

Yan Xuetong

Historically we've seen an increase in the number of persons applying to be naturalized anytime immigration reform is being discussed nationally. We saw it in the 1990s, and we are seeing it now.

Bill Strassberger

This is a bipartisan problem, and this is not a pie-in-the-sky thing, some giant reform. We have to stop it if we're ever going to get our budget under control.

Tim Phillips

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

Diane Ravitch

My own view is that the time for economic reform has ended. At present, Chinese people don't consider more material benefits as a crucial demand, and what seems to be more important is the extreme lack of rights.

Li Shuguang

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Mort Sahl

This is not a reform that Merkel can take credit for personally, but it is a sign that her grand coalition is tackling needed reforms.

Peter Loesche

A grand coalition would be one of the worst outcomes for our country, because there would be no possibility to change what has to be changed, to get a ticket for reform.

Helmut Schmidt

The government of Nepal is not listening, there have been many recommendations, and many calls [for reform], but the government is using more and more repressive measures.

Nicholas Howen

I fully expect that Congress will iron out the differences. With Social Security reform a bust, pension reform is a must.

James Klein

Al Gore needs to understand that what happened in Florida is not necessarily about him, ... suffered serious infractions and irregularities and disparities. And the fact is that - if nothing more - the residual from this should be election reform.

Alcee Hastings

Academic reform is really reshaping the focus of analysis to the team level.

Kevin Lennon

Reform is alive and well within Islam, but it will only happen by those from within Islam and not those who hate Islam.

Hussam Ayloush

What bothers people the most about corruption is not the fouling of the process but the impact on real things — energy prices, the Iraq war and Medicare reform. Those are 'facts' that upset people the most. The corruption scandal is all about energy, Iraq, and the prescription drug mess — the dominant issues for the public.

James Carville

They have to do something serious about property-tax reform. Otherwise, what are you going to do? They?re going to tax people out of their homes.

Superintendent Michael Wasta

They had first told us to join parliament to discuss the reform proposals and now they want us to come up with a bill in parliament. The onus lies with the government to place the bill in the House.

Sheikh Hasina

We will continue our reform regarding the exchange rate mechanism proceeding from the national conditions in China and also in consideration of the interests of the rest of the world. We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries concerning our perspectives on the question of exchange rates.

Yang Jiechi

We're calling on Congress to pass a comprehensive reform that makes our country more secure and raises standards for all working people in this country.

Avril Smith

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

Li Deshui

With the passage of the Grow Iowa Values Fund last year, the Legislature needs to address tax relief and regulatory reform.

Mike Ralston

The Sensenbrenner bill has proven to be one of the great mobilizing forces for the pro (immigration) reform alliance in this country.

Frank Sharry

Instead of leading the country to bipartisan comprehensive reform, ... he runs more of a danger of putting gasoline on the fire.

Frank Sharry

Koizumi tried to achieve reform within the LDP framework ... But he couldn't do that, so that means reform is only possible if there is a change in government.

Yasunori Sone

You had a president who was clearly committed to fundamental tax reform, and we assumed that they would be taking that commitment to heart.

Scott Hodge

We are in desperate need of immigration reform. I hope the House has seen all the rallies and protests around the nation and remembers the issue is very important and people support a fair immigration reform.

Iliana Holguin

This was a five-year reform (and) we're coming to our fifth year. We haven't used all of our money because we chose not to spend it quickly, but to spend it well and to spend it in full consultation with the people who give us our money.

Frank Destefano

The government has to admit, in light of yesterday's protest, that this reform cannot be implemented in its current form.

Bernard Thibault

I'm in favor of change and reform. But it would be a totally negative impact on the east end of the valley (if the zone went away).

Hal Joseph

The debate that's going on in Washington over immigration reform is, I believe, a historic period for the country.

Pete Meersman

Has been a longtime champion of Medicare modernization, and of providing seniors with access to preventive medicine and the new drugs that are transforming health care in this country. I saw this commitment firsthand in my work on the 2003 Medicare reform bill.

Jon Kyl

If it has an effect on political reform in China it will be a bad one. It can't have a good effect, ... It will make them even more obstinate.

Dai Qing

Tax increases through the back door. It's very insidious. I think it's very harmful and it's really going to have a very negative impact on the whole system if we don't reform it now.

Garth Turner

The United States, for their part, will have to reshape, through these negotiations, the future of their own domestic support programs, delivering on the promise of reform by President (George W. Bush).

National Press

The UN Security Council reform is over. There are a lot of losers, there is Africa.

Tom Wheeler

This is a governor who repealed the car tax, passed workers compensation reform and continues to pay down debt.

Adam Mendelsohn

It's widely accepted the U.N. has to undergo a certain amount of reform. I think the future of the U.N. is bright. It's critical.

David Woolner

It just does not fit into what else he has done. He has presented himself as a good-government person - and he does have a record of reform - which is why people are at a loss as to why he would spend significant sums of public money on promoting himself.

Dick Dadey

[Expect no cooperation from PERA itself, though, in achieving this reform.] Those who suggest that the board's composition has resulted in poor decisions have no evidence to support this claim, ... no crisis currently exists.

Meredith Williams

He's elected a lot of people who are urban and reform-minded and not part of the old machine.

Gerald Curtis

Unless there is serious reform there, the euro won't regain investor confidence.

Ruth Lea

I am excited about what happened. For us, just getting all the organizations coming together, to send a national message that we want a comprehensive immigration reform.

Lydia Hernandez

Public confidence in UC is of paramount importance to us, and we will reform our policies and/or practices in order to meet fully our public accountability obligations.

Paul Schwartz

This (German election) does nothing for the prospect for reform, in Germany or Europe in general, ... So investors have voted with their money and hammered the euro.

Rob Henderson

Tom said people in our country should not live like this. We filed law suits in Dona Ana County and it worked for two reasons. The developers knew they would be held accountable and there was some serious reform of the New Mexico Subdivision Act.

Geno Zamora

It does look to us that there is evidence that the reform initiatives across the states are working to increase achievement at least in some states.

David Grissmer

China has made a reform to its exchange rate mechanism — that was an important step. We still want to see greater currency flexibility in the region.

Tony Fratto

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Rebecca Harding Davis

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

Johnny Isakson

Koizumi beat up on the old LDP and cast the Democratic Party as anti-reform, ... The Democrats should have stressed more that Koizumi's reforms were not enough.

Yasunori Sone

The 2002 reforms were just a recognition of changes that had happened already. It's not reform in any meaningful sense, there was just a disintegration of the state.

Andrei Lankov

It appears that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is making a genuine effort to reform its economy and adopt the rule of law.

Rob Portman

This does nothing for the prospect for reform, in Germany or Europe in general.

Rob Henderson

But it is still the most important immigration reform that I will have seen in my lifetime.

Richard Armey

We call on Congress to enact just and humane immigration reform. True immigration reform would include a path to legalization without barriers.

Felicia Martinez

Is there some irony here? Probably. But sometimes in order to enact real reform, interesting alliances have to be made.

Tom Swan

That's why we need to keep the pressure on and send a clear message to the politicians in Washington that we need a just immigration reform that includes provisions for 12 million immigrants who work and build America every day.

Domingo Garcia

The question is whether this has signed away the possibility of reform in the longer term.

David Naude

Other countries have an interest in UN reform as well and not just in how the Security Council works.

Marc Grossman

This was the last thing the government wanted. However, it's our job to accept the umpire's decision and find a way through this mess, ... We will finish what we started. We will reform the health system and not only that, we will ensure that the people of Bundaberg will get justice.

Peter Beattie

People are worried that in order to achieve structural reform and postal privatization, LDP politicians will be less engaged in pork barrel politics.

Yuriko Koike

Florida has always been the poster-child for reform, first in a bad way in 2000 but then in a good way in responding to it. Florida is in many ways a bellwether of what might happen with other states around the country.

Doug Chapin

If we all participate, we will empower respect and real immigration reform.

Jaime Contreras

If the unions and their members are able to commit to extensive across-the-board labor reform, there may be an opportunity to retain some wide body airframe maintenance capacity in-house.

Rob Fyfe

The biggest issue in this election is postal privatization. It's the symbol of structural reform.

Takenori Kanzaki

On the other hand, McCain as a moderate Republican and an independent politician and an advocate of campaign finance and ethics reform can help Forrester boost his claims to be the candidate of change in this year's election.

David Rebovich

I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party.

Jonathan Moyo

We're calling on the Legislature to quickly pass the health care reform proposal now pending at the State House, with an employer responsibility provision. By putting a floor under employer health expenditures, the employer responsibility provisions halt the race to the bottom that leaves workers with no coverage and raises health care costs for everyone.

Liz Jackson

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.

Karen Ross

I hope to explain (to the U.S. officials) the Japanese government's continued efforts toward structural reform.

Sadakazu Tanigaki

He was asked to meet those guys. They ate supper and these guys started lecturing Craddick how badly nursing homes needed tort reform.

Roy Minton

After the Democrats' obstructionist approach to Social Security reform, it is more difficult for them to claim the mantle of fiscal responsibility.

Maya Macguineas

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.

Art Buchwald

It's business as usual in Washington. The feeding frenzy for reform right now is mostly a war of words.

Roberta Baskin

Senator Reid is doing what is right for both his caucus and real immigration reform.

Susan Mccue

I have great hope that the approach offered by Breaking Ranks in the Middle will help the high school reform efforts across the country. Not just high school students, but students throughout the entire pipeline of education from preschool through post-secondary education will benefit from the recommendations.

Chad P. Wick

For many months the US was standoffish from this reform process, which is odd, since reform of the United Nations is a US priority. What the US is finding once again is that as maddening as it can be, the UN is a necessary forum for us - and it will work better if we work to get certain changes done.

Lee Feinstein

It really went, I think, to the heart of some of the issues of welfare reform.

Monty Martin

You see it in their faces. He'll be back they say of someone who has vowed to reform.

Tom Walker

We all realize that high school reform must be a priority.

Bob Corkins

I do certainly see chances that a grand coalition can take on major reform projects and reform challenges.

Dieter Hundt

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

James Saxton

After three or four years of discussion of this fundamental reform, now that it comes to the crunch, there are a lot of bureaucratic interests that figure they don't quite like it.

Christopher Granville

For a long time the Orthodox community has found opportunities to work on common goals with faith communities across the spectrum. We work on an array of issues, and also have our disagreements with evangelicals -- and with Reform Jews, for that matter.

Nathan Diament

This is the first meaningful Medicaid reform package that will have mitigating impact on county budgets statewide, ... but we still have a lot of history to deal with.

Bruce Fisher

We are working hard to reform the IRS, and it would be counterproductive at best, and very harmful at worst, if these hearings undermined morale and damaged our efforts.

Robert Rubin

It costs $3,000 to $6,000 a day to keep one of these children in a hospital. The Legislature is talking about Medicaid reform, and we think we can be a very important part of that discussion.

Beth Rubio

He believes it is incumbent upon elected officials to do all they can to bring in new revenues without hiking taxes. The controller believes that we can bring more money into government by rooting out waste, implementing procurement reform, cracking down on tax cheats, and hiring more auditors.

Nick Velasquez

The Medicaid Reform Act of 2006 recognizes the fact that Oklahoma has a broken, outdated system. In talking with Oklahomans, we've found that the Medicaid program is plagued with a lack of access to care, a lack of health literacy, and no incentives for Medicaid consumers to use the program wisely.

Rep. Kris Steele

In campaigns we all know about radio, TV and direct mail. And we call those 'vehicles' for getting a message out, ... Well, the Kilgore car is literally another vehicle to use in getting our message of honest reform out to the people of Virginia. This vehicle just happens to travel at 200 miles per hour.

Jerry Kilgore

We have got to stop the approval of anti-immigrant reforms, demand a migration reform that is humane and fair, and not racist.

Javier Rodriguez

We cannot afford one more day in which the governor is preoccupied with these scandals at the expense of a focus on creating jobs, reforming education and moving Ohio forward.

Michael Coleman

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

Sheikh Hasina

They must clear their position on the opposition proposals for reforming the system of caretaker government and the EC. It appears that they were trying to bypass our reform proposals asking us to place it in parliament in the form of a bill.

Sheikh Hasina

Chinese government's goal over the reform of foreign exchange rate system is firm, continual, manageable and active.

Jin Renqing

If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.

Mary Wilson Little

It's not perfect, but it certainly has some strong elements of reform.

Jim Brandt

We think this is the largest mobilization on the issue of immigration reform ever.

Avril Smith

What will probably happen is they will knuckle down and vote for reform. Things are getting better in Japan and the architect of that appears to be moving toward retaining power.

Callum Henderson

Within Europe, Germany wasn't exactly a leader for reform, nor a leader in anything, and that will just continue.

Daniel Gros

It would not be appropriate to comment while the House Committee on Government Reform is doing its work.

Arn Tellem

The main goal of bankruptcy reform in my judgment is to discourage people from discharging all of their debt when they can afford to pay all of it back.

Bill Mccollum

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

Ian Stannard

I don't think people were looking at (the special session) to reform Louisiana government from top to bottom. I think the proof now is in how they manage the recovery ... and I don't think they have to reinvent government to carry forward.

John Mcginnis

The share reform is the primary task for the capital market reform and development in 2006.

Shang Fulin

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

Jerry Weller

In general reducing the public debt will require drastic public sector reform. To implement drastic reforms, Koizumi needs to gain public support.

Tomoko Fujii

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Andrew Mellon

It's an election year. Would you want to be the elected official who voted against eminent domain reform?

Carol Saviak

Then he gave some specifics on the bad debt situation, perhaps more detail than we would have expected, but we are yet to see anything comprehensive on the fiscal reform, and we don't expect anything soon.

Jeffrey Young

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Clara Barton

The speaker does support many aspects of education reform.

Chris Cutrone

It seems like it's more technical pieces of reform. We are a long way from the end, and we've still got issues to address that this panel didn't address.

Barry Erwin

In our view, if the state of emergency is short-lived, then it should not have a measurable impact on economic activity and thus preserve the gains from the fiscal reform effort, which is the cornerstone of the positive view toward the Philippines.

Jojo Gonzales

That was the catalyst for it. Obviously, we knew the governor differed from conservatives on some issues. But when he appointed Gray Davis' cabinet secretary as his chief of staff, the recall, the reform movement was RIP.

Mike Spence

There are a bunch of little reform measures percolating in Congress right now. At least some of those will need to pass if we're going to see the McCain and Bush camps unify.

Nancy Gibbs

I think, what matters is that there should be a real dialogue among the political parties. Electoral reform has to be decided by the people of Bangladesh and political parties, not by an external observer.

Herve Jouanjean

Merkel is chancellor, and she is reform-minded; we shouldn't forget that.

Holger Schmieding

We remain unconvinced that an acquirer would be interested in buying/merging with Hanson, unless the asbestos liabilities were capped in law. We continue to believe that the probability of asbestos reform becoming law in 2006 is extremely thin.

Darren Shaw

This system is very, very broken. We need a comprehensive reform bill that will deal with the real economic demand for immigrant labor.

Laura Reiff

This bill is the most fundamental reform effort we've seen in probably two decades out of Congress.

Mila Kofman

With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

Kumi Naidoo

Whatever the costs [for farmers] economically, they pale in comparison to costs for not fixing this nation's broken immigration policy. For the most part, [Monday's] events were held with dignity and grace and added to other statements ? literal and figurative ? that we need immigration reform. It added an exclamation point.

Tim Chelling

Hundreds of thousands of Ohioans have signed petitions, hoping for a chance to vote for reform and clean up politics in Ohio.

Chris Redfern

The stable outlook reflects the balance between positive economic developments and the prospects for the success of the government's ambitious and broad-based reform effort on the one hand, and escalating regional geopolitical risks on the other hand.

Farouk Soussa

There has been so much focus on the U.S. rules and regulations and very little focus on what Cuba is going to have to do to change and reform and liberalize.

Paula Stern

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

Lincoln Chafee

The idea of school choice is spreading like wildfire around the country, because it's the one education reform that puts real choices and real opportunities in the hands of families who desperately need them.

Clint Bolick

Filings are up solely because of the bankruptcy reform act.

Terry Miller