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Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful. -- Li Keqiang
Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart. -- Pope Francis
Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts. -- Mitt Romney
I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. -- Lebbeus Woods
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs. -- Barack Obama
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. -- Rick Perry
Reforming Social Security to make it fully funded and independently held, that's compassionate because it allows people to control their own lives; cutting taxes on families and all Americans to let people have more control over their lives. -- Grover Norquist
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. -- Alan Paton
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security. -- Juan Williams
Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform. -- Marco Rubio
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments. -- Andrew Jackson
When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law. -- Heather Brooke
Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare. -- Gary Johnson
My experience tells me, unfortunately, that so many people ask the question about 'The Smiths' reforming without really caring about the answer. They just really want to ask the question. -- Johnny Marr
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions. -- Ibrahim Babangida
I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser. -- Richard Shelby
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight. -- Janine Benyus
As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes. -- Rand Paul
Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a fairy-tale. We broke that old stereotype by reforming our political, economic and social systems concurrently since 1990. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities. -- Ibrahim Babangida
What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business. -- Bob Beauprez
President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital. -- Lael Brainard
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. -- Eliot Spitzer
One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system. -- Nick Clegg
If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up. -- Sean Duffy
There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for our immigration laws can we give meaning to the discussion we need to have over reforming the numbers, categories, and procedures for legal immigration into the United States. -- Jan C. Ting
If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to come from the United States, and in a recent speech he went to great lengths to emphasise the historical affinity and shared characteristics of the U.K. and the U.S. -- Martin Jacques
I very much believe in reforming the tax system. -- Barack Obama
Age is reforming our bodies to better roll with the punches! -- Sue Thoele
You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world. -- Lu Xun
The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society. -- Vinessa Shaw
The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future. -- Kate Orff
When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom. -- James Thurber
It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system. -- Sheikh Hasina
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. -- Benjamin Haydon
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. -- Rene Dubos
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself. -- Peter of Alcantara
There are limits to reforming a system that is dominated by these massive and rapacious corporations. -- Kshama Sawant
It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world. -- M. Russell Ballard
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts. -- Tariq Ramadan
the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine. -- Ronald Wright
Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself. -- John Shelby Spong
Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track. -- Bob McDonnell
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments -- Andrew Jackson
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. -- Hu Shih
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin. -- Alexander Pope
We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way. -- Jonathan Haidt
Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on. -- Swami Vivekananda
By rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact, has made another crisis more likely. -- Paul Krugman
Ukraine will be reforming its energy sector because we want to integrate into Europe, ... We have conducted all the talks and reached an agreement with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Poland and Georgia. -- Viktor Yushchenko
We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words. -- Chiang Kai-shek
There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense. -- Connie Willis
You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to think seriously about reforming the Arabic that we use today. -- Hassan Blasim
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious. -- Mark Twain
One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve. -- Irving Howe
My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it. -- Thomas Adams
Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions. -- Bennie Thompson

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