Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.

I come here this time as the special envoy of the secretary general on UN reform only, not as someone who is entrusted with the task of talking about the situation in Myanmar.

It’s critical that any immigration reform package include a temporary worker program. Without it, we simply will not be addressing the issue.

What is decisive is what actually happens, … The need for reform in those fields is undisputed. If we don’t manage to agree on real, far-reaching reforms here, the grand coalition would be meaningless.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Employment pressure will remain intense this year, and continued reform and restructuring of enterprises will make it difficult to increase employment over the short term.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Any attempt to reform the university without attending to the system of which it is an integral part is like trying to do urban renewal in New York City from the twelfth story up.

I’m concerned that in the zeal to reform, we’re overreaching.

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

The president is totally committed to Social Security reform.

I think the heavier lifting is the budget-process and earmarks [reform]. Lobbyist reform is blaming somebody else. I just fear that there will be too much blaming and not focus on what we need to...

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

This is a first step on the road toward dealing with overall border security and immigration reform.

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...

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

It’s hard to believe that any fundamental tax reform coming out of the administration wouldn’t involve some serious reform of the AMT,

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.

While much has been done, much still remains to be done. The reform process, which has achieved major successes in the last two years, must be pursued.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

The White House wants (immigration reform), and many of us in the House do so as well,

The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as vital to our health as the heart and mind. It’s time for science...

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

It is very important to send a message that the Arab world does have a document on reform, [and] is committed to reform,

The President’s budget calls for stricter agricultural payment caps is an important reform of an outdated agricultural subsidy program is rife with abuse and loopholes and hurts small farmers here and abroad. The U.S. government...

I’m largely in favor of financial reform.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to...

A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community,...

I see dull people as projects … to be reformed

The president supports comprehensive immigration reform that addresses border security, enforcement and the economic demand for willing workers.

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

On both sides, doubts are growing about a successful integration of Turkey into the EU. The reform drive that we’ve gotten used to between 2002 and 2005 has been paralyzed.

not only theoretical reform, not only academic reform, but actual practical reform.

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not...

Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.

I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve

Clearly, how they handle this individual case, how they handle more broadly speaking the process of political reform and the process of openness and the commitment to transparency and the rule of law, is of...

push forward the reform of the political structure in an enthusiastic and stable manner.

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

We cannot reform our forefathers

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal–not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of...

White suburban voters who voted for George Bush are disaffected now. Would I rather be talking about immigration reform with these voters or the war? Immigration reform or gasoline prices? Sometimes, in order to avoid...

ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as...

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

A migratory reform that only addresses security will not resolve the bilateral immigration problem. It is indispensable to establish legal, secure and ordered migration. Our countrymen make an enormous contribution to the United States economy.

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

As long as he continues to oppose our efforts to reform the department, I can’t say they get it.

The House of Representatives recently passed an ESA reform bill that promises to give property owners 100 percent direct compensation for their lost rights. Incredibly, Senator Crapo’s bill seeks to undo this. For property rights...

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.