Quotes About Politics

In my opinion, serving the common good is the true purpose of politics and is also the perspective through which our community should consider constitutional reform.

A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.

Health reform is, in some ways, a microcosm to everything that's right about Washington and everything that's wrong about it.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

If election is your goal, you're never going to engage in reform. Reform has to be your goal. Election is the means. You run for office in order to do something, not in order to perpetuate yourself.

Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

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

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.

If immigration reform doesn't happen, that doesn't say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn't pass it.

We have a lot of folks who talk about immigration reform but haven't put their name on a bill.

The Seanad question was one element of a process of change and reform to politics that government has been pursuing.

I'm proud of my record of reform, taking on my own party.