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Obama and his Democrats need to be placed on the defensive. They are the primary drivers of this spending; they are the obstructers of entitlement reform and the national debt continues to burn while they fiddle.

The government is a heartbeat away from nationalizing health care based on deliberate misinformation about the nation's uninsured and despite the 100 percent failure rate of such fantastic reforms elsewhere on the globe.

As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'

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

We placed the reform proposal to establish people's rights, not to oust anyone from power or to help anyone get it.

While NAMIC agrees that there needs to be additional reform to the NFIP, we do not believe that these reforms should stand in the way of Congress passing the additional borrowing authority that the NFIP has requested. NAMIC believes that we must take care of those homeowners who did the right thing by purchasing flood insurance, and we must do so immediately.

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.

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,

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

We will definitely reform the Agricultural Bank of China.

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.

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.

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

This report unambiguously rejects the notion that business as usual at the United Nations is acceptable, ... We need to reform the U.N. in a manner that will prevent another oil-for-food scandal. The credibility of the United Nations depends on it.

This report unambiguously rejects the notion that 'business as usual' at the UN is acceptable, ... We need to reform the UN in a manner that will prevent another oil-for-food scandal.

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.

There is a conversation going among many of the same diverse organizations and individuals that worked hard on lobbying reform about improving the legislative process and opening up government more.

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

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.

Too much of the debate over immigration reform has ignored one of the greatest threats to our privacy. The proposed employer verification system would require Americans, regardless of citizenship, to get a 'permission slip to work' from the government. If Congress wants to reform immigration, then it should, but it shouldn't use this legislation as a clandestine means to subvert our constitutional right to privacy.

We at Tyson support comprehensive immigration reform and support our Team Members' right to express themselves on this important matter.

We believe more clients will adopt the Roth 401(k) if EGTRRA provisions are made permanent, which may happen as part of pension reform legislation currently before Congress.

True reform can only happen with a change in government.

To reform to move toward a direct democracy, I don't know how you would do that. If there is the technology there, maybe this is the next step.

To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency.

This was an extraordinarily difficult process, ... This is not the end of the reform effort, it really is the beginning of a permanent reform effort that must be under way at the United Nations.

This was a key component of his Medicaid reform plan. It's very important to the governor that people not be penalized for being self-sufficient.

The passage of workers' compensation reform in 2004 was a critical step forward for small businesses in California and helped produce and preserve thousands of jobs in our state. The ballot initiatives would eviscerate those reforms, resulting in massive increases in worker's compensation costs, and send our economy into a tailspin. We will rally California's entire business community to preserve the reforms and will wage a vigorous campaign against these job killer initiatives.

This should be looked at. This is obviously disturbing, to say the least. We cannot let up on our drive to reform the department, no matter what the entrenched interests at DBI do to try and preserve the status quo.

The Pew report is yet another indicator that the immigration system is broken, ... Immigration reform must be comprehensive and address both enforcement and improved avenues for legal immigration.

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

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.

We've got to do things differently if we're going to reform our schools. You've got to stretch kids. State tests were never designed to be the end line. They've got to keep being reformed. In the quest to raise standards, you may have lowered them for other students.

Without adequate money going into education, you can't reform it,

With only seven weeks left until the Hong Kong ministerial conference in December, we have just about run out of time, ... If Hong Kong fails there is little chance of completing negotiations in 2006, putting the future of multilateral trade reform at serious risk for the short term.

Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees.

With such a stunning result, passage of the postal reform bills is virtually assured. The next areas are medical reform, civil service reform, public sector outsourcing and government financial institution reform.

We need to combine real simple tax reform along with reforming the IRS.

We will by not later than June ... have from our officials an assessment of individual areas of change and reform needed in mental health.

We've just had the worst 24 hours for the European reform outlook in a long, long time.

We are encouraged by the response on many campuses to academic reform. The goal of academic reform is to improve academic behaviors and increase graduation, not unnecessarily penalize teams.

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 spends billion of dollars each year on farm payments that are heavily concentrated in large-scale commercial operations, distorting international markets and causing controversy and unfairness in global trade.

The President said at Camp David that he embraced the reform movement as described by the Prime Minister. And the President of course will speak for himself. I imagine that he supports the Prime Minister in his general efforts to reform the structure and procedures of this economy so that the economy can move forward. America prospers when Japan prospers.

The President of the Reform Movement started a literacy project and said everyone should be reading at least four Jewish books a year.

The President is off to a bad start. He owes the American people honest answers on whether he wants to reform Social Security or privatize it.

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

Filings are up solely because of the bankruptcy reform act.

expressed his confidence in Germany's ability to continue on the reform path.

Both of us understand that real reform means more than tightening bureaucratic rules; it means fundamental changes to the way Congress does business.

The governors' plan is simply unacceptable. It misses the point of what real welfare reform is all about.

The governor's experience was he could not successfully negotiate bipartisan reform budget reform in particular because the CTA did not allow legislative leaders to come to an agreement,

The governor is committed to continuing to work to enact a comprehensive education reform package that will provide our schools with the support they need.

The government must not squander this golden opportunity to radically reform the pensions system.

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

We see that the inflation rate is going down, so that there is a chance that tax reform with its enormous relief in the second half of the year will begin to work,

...We seek to champion change and reform to produce a more stable, prosperous and integrated region through the advance of freedom.

We need to solve structural problems, such as agrarian reform and the structural problems of housing, employment, health, education and roads.

The government and the regime want to send a message to us ... that there is nothing new and that all the promises it made for political reform must be forgotten.

Tuesday can be a turning point. It's set to be a big day. It has to be a very big day. We've counted a very high number of calls for strike, higher than what we had at the peak of mobilization against pension reform in 2003.

While the legislative session has now ended, the need for school reform has not and Texans can rest assured that even though the legislature did not act, I will, ... The people have demanded reform, they have been promised reform and I intend to deliver reform using the full constitutional authority of the executive branch.

We all agree that comprehensive immigration reform is the way to go. You can't fix a piece of this and claim victory.

The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor

The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor

There is no joy in Greenville this morning. But the ball game is far from over, as environmental ideologues have vowed to fight tooth-and-nail to destroy any meaningful ESA reform in the Senate.

There is no serious intention towards political reform and what we are now seeing ... is evidence of the lack of any desire for political reform.

We had to explain to voters that we can only maintain our social welfare system if we reform it,

This tax reform can't make it without the support of the task force leadership ? and it doesn't have it.

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.

Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds from the Koch brothers and other people in the fossil fuel industry. That tells me why we have to reform our campaign finance system.

The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to be real tax reform, and the wealthiest and large corporations will pay.

to keep the pressure on the IOC and let's see how quickly they can act to reform themselves.

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 first elected.

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

We were pretty much upset with the fact that they called us a reform team. We are not a reform team. We are a public high school. We were really upset coming into this game. We just knew that we were going to face them at 10 o'clock this morning and that we were going to take out our anger and frustration on them.

With limits on the rights of victims of medical negligence, insurance companies spend less money on patients and more money on insurance company lawyers, but insurers do not lower rates for doctors. Lawmakers looking to California as a model for malpractice insurance reform must understand that regulation worked and liability caps did not.

We are calling for responsible eminent domain reform that balances the needs of individual property owners with the livability of our communities.

We certainly want to support the legislators who voted for tax relief and tax reform and help communicate the benefits of the legislation to their constituents.

You have to reform the visa program. The chain migration system doesn't work. You need a guest workers program.

To what extent a pension reform plan attracts and retains teachers will largely depend on what percent of our salaries the General Assembly asks us to sacrifice.

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

Washington can send a message to the rest of the country Tuesday that the nation wants a reform candidate who is going to clean up the mess in Washington (D.C.) and move us forward

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.

Border Security and enforcement need to be the number one priority. Until we fix our broken borders, we can't address immigration reform in any meaningful and constructive way. We believe the Nelson, Sessions, Coburn Amendment is moving in the right direction by looking at an enforcement only bill as a top priority.

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.

Either we head into a more serious crisis, which will hit economic growth, or we abandon reform for a year. In both cases it is a failure for France.

believes U.S. engagement and leadership in this process is very important but does not feel that withholding dues is a productive route to achieving reform and indeed that it could jeopardize the outcome of the September summit.

Blessed, blessed is that Perfect True Guru, who has given the Lord s Teachings to reform the whole world.

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.

As the immigration debate continues, we encourage member of Congress to pass comprehensive reform that protects both our borders and our economy.

As the governor has said, once he has a bill or bills on his desk that substantially reduce property taxes and reform the business franchise tax, he'll open the call to other issues.

As soon as the business-related health-care reform bill is over, the bill will be heard, and it could move rapidly. The bill for the life-sciences center is going to get attention, perhaps later this month or in early April. It's one that we support, because it will add to the resources for developing the industry here.

Assuming that efforts to revive S. 852 prove unsuccessful, Congress will be able to consider true asbestos reform legislation. We will continue working with Congress on a medical criteria approach to asbestos reform legislation.

As I said when you elected me two years ago, there is a massive weight we must lift in our state and alone, I cannot lift it. Together we can. Now, I need you again to reform the system. I have a great vision for California.

Coming from a governor's chair, (Bush) comes from the strength of the party, where innovation and reform are taking place. He is the reformer,

Congress got bankruptcy reform wrong, dead wrong. The federal bankruptcy law changes ... are doing no measurable good whatsoever. They've done nothing more than put new hurdles in the path of people who are already flat on their back.

Continuing education reform is very important. But the bottom line is we have to maintain a way to gauge or measure achievement, the MCAS exams, to justify spending so much more money that we did 10 years ago.

Continuing education reform is very important, ... But the bottom line is we have to maintain a way to gauge or measure achievement, the MCAS exams, to justify spending so much more money that we did 10 years ago.

Comprehensive reform is critical to strengthening our worker pension system, and I remain confident that the House and Senate can complete our work on broad reforms this year,