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

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.

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a...

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

It wasn’t meant to be a partisan reform initiative, but it is clearly perceived that way and I think that has to do with the governor.

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.

This is a fascinating reform, since it comes right before the U.S. FASB — as is probable — accepts a request by the SEC to look into FAS87, the U.S. (pension) standard,

In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian imperial heir, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Do you know the motive behind the act?It was in retaliation for the subjugation of the Sebs...

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,

Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions

The governor would certainly like to see comprehensive reform, and his proposed budget takes us a long way. We have to do what we can within our means.

Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation’s tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, … The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.

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

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they...

It’s also important to note that the point of the election was to strengthen Koizumi’s reform mandate, so we’ll be looking how he delivers on this front,

You can’t go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it’s just a cage.

I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill ’em.

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.

As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet.

Your mental make-ups are the contents of your everyday thinking; they carry a charge that can either transform, reform or destroy you. Watch your thoughts, they determine your life!

do everything possible to keep the economic reform rolling.

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

We will not participate in a process which does not guarantee political reform.

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...

I was trying to foment a little dissension.’ He paused. ‘No, that’s too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlike—injecting a little love?’ He snorted. ‘Through violence, of course, like all religious...

Our state’s foster-care system has been badly in need of major reform for quite some time.

If you conform, you can never reform.

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth....

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

The reform concept was today deepened and accelerated,

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

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