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

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.

REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.

It’s time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and...

With immigration on the front burner, this is probably President Bush’s last best shot at getting the immigration reform through that he and Mexico’s President Vicente Fox proposed five years ago, when they both were...

It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

Lobbying reform is going more the enforcement route. What’s that going to do? Nothing much.

whoever is the next director is going to have to be open to serious reform.

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...

We’ve reached a point in human history where higher education no longer works. As a result of technology, higher education in its traditional college setting no longer works. It will never be effective or progressive...

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

We are confident that it (reform) will happen,

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it’s about controlling the people.

Reconciliation means that those who have been on the underside of history must see that there is a qualitative difference between repression and freedom. And for them, freedom translates into having a supply of clean...

Pat Choate has worked extensively to examine the intricacies of intellectual property theft and patent reform; he is at the forefront of the debate,

heed fully the Chinese position on exchange-rate reform.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged...

This is a huge step forward for our fight for immigration reform. Obviously the organized marches across the nation have shown that there is a will for change and a path for citizenship that rewards...

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It...

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.