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It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.
Ron Wyden

Health, Care, Hard

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.
Ron Wyden

Health, Truth, Through

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
Abdallah II

Change, Successful, Process

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.
Juan Williams

Beyond, Budget, Fights

The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.
Nick Clegg

Cannot, Broken, While

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.
Nick Clegg

Political, Talk, Last

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.
Nick Clegg

Life, Politics, Society

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.
Nick Clegg

Justice, Political, Social

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
Paul Krugman

Health, Fun, Law

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
Grover Norquist

Important, Understand, Less

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Government, Understand, Progress

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
Valerie Jarrett

Priorities, Financial, Top

I believe in health care reform.
Joe Manchin

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.
Joe Baca

Good, Character, Real

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.
Charles Schumer

Actually, Tax, Wants

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.
Paul Wolfowitz

Democracy, Themselves, Support

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.
Muqtada al Sadr

Government, Political, Give

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.
John Jay Hooker

Government, Integrity, Others

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
Christiane Amanpour

Democracy, Free, Whole

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.
Mike Pence

Time, Save, Teeth

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.
Natan Sharansky

Leadership, Simple, Free

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
Jim Wallis

Week, Five, Welfare

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
Ruben Hinojosa

Graduation, School, Focus

President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.
Christine Pelosi

Home, Equality, Forward

The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
Bernie Sanders

Real, Goal, Universal

And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.
Juan Williams

Health, Care, Enough

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.
Juan Williams

Health, Government, Care

Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive advocates of school reform, charter schools and vouchers for private schools.
Juan Williams

Money, Business, School

President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.
Juan Williams

Education, Teacher, Win

The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.
Juan Williams

School, Children, Political

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