Quotes about Reforming

Other than the postal bills, there are no concrete plans about important issues such as tax reform, pension reform, decentralization and diplomacy.

Seiji Maehara

Well, that and workers' comp reform. He did lobby me for workers' comp reform, because Paul Patton asked him to. And the gas tax. He always wanted a hike in the gas tax.

Attorney General Greg Stumbo

We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster.

Dewi Fortuna Anwar

As Congress debates franchise reform, it is imperative that our elected leaders adopt legislation that will lead to increased broadband development and investment. Consumers deserve choice, and only true competition can encourage the market forces that will bring about lower prices, better quality and more choices.

Bruce Mehlman

We want to move from a culture of corruption to reform. It's time to get serious and give the public the government they deserve.

Cindi Canary

There is still a chance for the government to reform, to release political prisoners, to change the cabinet, to arrest those people who acted to excess in Lebanon. That will make it more difficult for the international community to embarrass the regime.

Sami Moubayed

That's part of the reason why our community hasn't rushed out to protest. They are afraid of what will happen to them with immigration reform.

Sabiha Khan

Blair can do a little bit more to bring people on board. But they've already watered it down so totally that it almost doesn't reform anything.

Philip Cowley

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.

Christopher Bond

This is the first that the governor has mentioned it (workers' comp reform) in connection with the budget. In our view, that makes an agreement a bit likelier this year.

Matthew Maguire

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

Jin Renqing

It still looks as though it's gonna go down to the wire, ... and the campaign finance reform plan did nothing to change that. People still think of John McCain as the campaign finance reform candidate.

John Dickerson

We're not cutting Medicaid. We're reforming government.

Jim Nussle

We are glad that Senator Specter is moving forward with comprehensive immigration reform, ... It is long overdue.

Laura Capps

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

Andrew Lansley

If he were serious about the talk, he'd be backing electoral reform legislation.

Jim Mcdermott

It has everything to do with the atmosphere of what's going on in Harrisburg. The late-night pay raise, the failure to deal with property tax reform.

Cliff Wilson

This talk of tax reform will come and go. But we need the economy looking brighter, otherwise putting action plans together is just fighting a losing battle.

Steve Barrow

There should be a transformation and reform in our electoral system starting with the moral fiber of our own candidates including the leadership in the commission and our field people.

Commissioner Resureccion Borra

We are optimistic about cooperation between Chinese banks and foreign strategic investors because the banks are committed to reform.

Ryan Tsang

What you're seeing here is an attempt by reform politicians to take control away from vested interests. I don't know what to expect, because I simply don't know how powerful these guys are.

Ron Bevacqua

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

Joseph Lieberman

On management reform, you have one side basically saying that the secretary general should be empowered and should have all flexibility as a kind of C.E.O. and the other side saying that it is not ready to give up the prerogative of the General Assembly and would like to keep a close eye on the work of the secretary general.

Abdallah Baali

The CBI welcomes the deregulatory aspects of the Company Law Reform Bill.

John Cridland

You're probably going to have [an] entitlement-reform-type Medicare bill every other year as far as the eye can see.

Stephen Ubl

It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race.

John Murray

I think there was an expectation created more by Government than anyone that media reform was on the agenda and would be dealt with.

Greg Baxter

To-morrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Persius

These are very ominous signs that the regime is far from fulfilling its pledges and is regressing on the reform front.

Saadeddin Ibrahim

Florida has been a leader in election reform since 2000.

Dan Seligson

In my view, at this point, it is probably more important to foster a structural reform of mindset.

Kuniko Inoguchi

There is always pressure and challenges for an economy as big as China's that is changing so rapidly, becoming more market-based and reforming in so many ways.

Robert Subbaraman

It is clear to everybody that France needs reform. Our unemployment is too high, particularly among the young, but employers fear that once people are taken on staff it becomes very difficult and expensive to lay them off in a downturn, so we need labor market flexibility.

Laurence Parisot

I am encouraged that the Oklahoma legislature is joining Florida in providing consumer choice and better care for Medicaid beneficiaries. Patient empowerment, marketplace competition, access to quality care, and cost stability are worthy goals that Florida, Oklahoma, and every state should strive for in reforming Medicaid.

Rep. Gayle Harrell

It's very much a matter of looking at what Russia did, which was to have political reform first and the economic reforms second. China wants to do it the other way around.

Colin Bradford

This election shows how Koizumi is in a league of his own in his political skills and media savvy. He did the impossible. He managed to convince the electorate that his party, which was opposed to his own reforms, was for change, and that the Democratic Party, which was a party founded for reform, was against change.

Gerald Curtis

The taxpayer is footing the bill for his failure to reform the public services, and Gordon Brown's lack of fiscal responsibility will damage our ability to compete in the new global economy.

George Osborne

Industry hopes to use the furor over breaches as a way to pass a modest federal reform that just happens to also permanently restrict the states from passing virtually any financial privacy or identity theft laws.

Edmund Mierzwinski

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

Earl Blumenauer

We should go further to reform but respect economic stability. Timing is important.

Zhou Xiaochuan

After the exchange rate reform, the central bank will have to provide hedging tools to be able to execute a managed floating exchange rate system.

Zhang Xuechun

We wonder why the KPU members, who are respected figures with quite clean track records, could become involved in such crimes. We are pleased that some of them expressed an interest in reforming the KPU.

Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas

He believes we need to reform government spending.

Erik Iverson

You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Proponents cleverly wrapped the word reform around the amendment, ... But calling a mule a thoroughbred doesn't make it one.

Eliot Spitzer

One of the main things in this is to ask for an immigration reform that is civil and human. One that would not separate mothers from their children, and would not focus on imprisoning those that wouldn't even kill a fly.

Elena Cuevas

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...

Elizabeth Hardwick

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

Edward Young