Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.
Lindsey Graham

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
John Goodman

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.
Jerry Weller

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
Art Buchwald

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'
Russell B. Long

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.
Todd Tiahrt

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
Michael Harrington

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.
Earl Browder

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
Rahm Emanuel

The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.
William Hague

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry.
Rosa DeLauro

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.
John Marshall Harlan

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
Peter Stuyvesant

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
Bob Riley

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.
Lucas Papademos

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
Diane Ravitch

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.
Bill McCollum

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.
Jesse Helms

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.
Robert Scheer