Reform Quotes - Page 11

I believe in health care reform. I don't believe in the way this bill was passed.

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

To innovate is not to reform.

We will have health care reform in America.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

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.

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

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

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.

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.

Every reformation ruins somebody.