It is Republicans who worked on welfare reform who have said it.
Progressives should be wary of education reform skeptics who constantly oppose reform by claiming (for decades) that we need to wait and see.
Those who want reform say the magistrates touch only the tip of an iceberg.
Still, the momentum appears to be favouring those who want reform of gene patents.
But the message to those who resist reform would seem to be that they face little danger.
Now, my health care proposal has also been attacked by some who oppose reform as a "government takeover" of the entire health care system.
Critics who dismiss reform of the House of Lords or legislation for gay marriage as unpopular irrelevances have just been given fresh electoral ammunition.
Two of the three main candidates to lead the new party are from Alberta: Preston Manning, who founded Reform in 1987, and Stockwell Day, a former finance minister in the province.
ECONOMIST: Alberta��s advantage poses some questions for Canada
The timing, it seems, is perfect: Those who opposed reform more than a decade ago (the insurers, the pharmaceutical companies, large employers) are now on board with the general notion of reform.
By standing up to the special interests -- who've prevented reform for decades and who are furiously lobbying against it now -- the Senate has moved us closer to reform that makes a tremendous difference for families, for seniors, for businesses, and for the country as a whole.
The man who undertook this reform for the Catholic education system in Europe was Clavius.
FORBES: A Long Forgotten Father of the Scientific Revolution
Ted Kennedy, a longtime advocate of health care reform who has been battling brain cancer.
" Feingold insists that Lott doesn't "want to be tagged as the person who killed campaign reform.
Three months ago investors had high hopes of Junichiro Koizumi, the incoming prime minister, who promised structural reform.
Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, a longtime proponent of health care reform who died before the bill became law.
CNN: Emotions high after Supreme Court upholds health care law
Which is why Republicans who support comprehensive reform have been sounding defensive.
But any politician who tries to reform the welfare state swiftly runs into trouble for a simple reason: it is very popular.
Each relevant department now has a minister for regulatory reform who reports to a panel chaired by Lord Macdonald at the Cabinet Office.
Ian Parsley, a former Conservative politician, who researched welfare reform, said the UK can no longer afford the welfare system in its current form.
For evidence of the problem, just think about the top corporate executives who chatted about reform with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner the other day.
FORBES: Corporate Tax Reform: The Winners And Losers Problem
Many Tories, who are opposed to AV, want to exploit the unpopularity of Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem deputy prime minister who champions voting reform.
But a prime minister who claims to reform the constitution while wilfully ignoring the imbalance at its centre exposes himself to the charge of hypocrisy.
Mr Clegg, who oversees constitutional reform, says it will save money.
EU's lack of democratic accountability (acutely felt by the British, who dislike the reform treaty that Mr Brown aims to ratify without a referendum) won't solve themselves.
ECONOMIST: The prime minister's developing view of the world
You know, sometimes there are those on the left who want immigration reform, but they don't want to acknowledge the fact that, well, we've got to strengthen our borders.
And now, under the pressures of partisanship and election-year politics, many of the 11 Republican senators who voted for reform in the past have now backed away from their previous support.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Comprehensive Immigration Reform
But will he still win when second, third and possibly fourth preferences are redistributed - when, by definition, those votes will initially have gone to candidates who dislike his reform plan?
The nearest parallel is with Teddy Roosevelt, who sought to reform the institutions of government at the turn of the century, taking on both the robber barons and the trade unions in the process.
Neither will it confer upon Moscow center a greater legitimacy among the genuine advocates of democracy and free market reform who know full well that Shevardnadze -- like Gorbachev -- is not one of them.
On September 1st the prime minister reorganised his cabinet, promoting the minister with responsibility for privatisation, Arun Shourie, to cabinet rank, and shifting the ministers for aviation and telecoms, who had resisted reform, into other jobs.
应用推荐