Quotes About System

Our biggest achievement was health-sector reform. The success was in making sure that primary health care was the center of gravity in our health system.

Boston's justice system is in serious need of reform. Many of its policies and practices are antiquated, expensive, and don't really even make Boston safer.

If you live under a system that claims to have high ideals but seems ineradicably opposed to your own people's flourishing, the desire for idealistic reform within the system has to coexist with an openness to more radical possibilities.

Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.

When I hear about Mainers rationing their medication or losing their life-savings despite being insured, I know our health care system requires major reform.

In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart on Crime initiative.

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

The American Health Care Act is not perfect, but it is an important step in reforming our broken healthcare system to help families in our district.

Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

We need transformational change of our criminal justice system - not just, you know, a handful of consent decrees or policy reforms.

If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so weird! We still call people black and white?

There is a method to the madness when it comes to placing everything in your refrigerator.

Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But if democracy just means going to vote, it's pretty meaningless. Russia has democracy in that sense. Most authoritarian regimes have democracy in that sense.

Our Founding Fathers, regular men who did great things together, established this system along with other regular men.

I regularly help constituents who have had problems with the benefits system.

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

In the wake of the 2008 recession, Congress and the Obama Administration rightly focused financial regulation on protecting the nation's financial system from itself.

What we should all argue for is the use of freedom rather than having a monetary system with regulation domination that is run by a cartel and the special interests - that is the kind of system we have today.

Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.

I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.