Reform Quotes

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

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.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

The reform of government needs to continue.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

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

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

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.

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

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.

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.

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

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

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.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

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

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform.

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.