Reform is not pleasant but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work how much less a nation.

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate Mitt Romney can contrary to conventional wisdom make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

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

We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

If you say I'm for equal pay that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist that's a transformation of society.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are at best reformed or potential lunatics.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

I learned a good deal about economics and about America from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

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.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say 'Oh Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

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.

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.

We need earmark reform and when I'm President I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Injustice poverty slavery ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals individual and collective a vast variety of them seldom predictable at times incompatible.

To reform a world to reform a nation no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know that the only solid though a far slower reformation is what each begins and perfects on himself.

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

Without true medical liability reform our doctors will continue to leave and young doctors coming out of medical school $100 000 to $200 000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.