Quotes About Reform

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

Apart from being an actor, I'm an academician. I wanted to pursue something with which I could bring about a change in society.

We must never stop pushing for equal protection under the law in Pennsylvania and across the country.

If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have been pushing for change.

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

I'm a politician who's against corruption that Putin has done in our country.

We have to fix the education system.

We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.

If you had to put people, senators - if they had to go for their V.A. to get care, it would probably get fixed.

There's a million things wrong with government that need to get fixed, but none of its ever going to get fixed unless we start educating our children better.

Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.

The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.

The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.

Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.

I want to go to Washington to make sure we really have an opportunity to expand health care for folks so that is accessible to them.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

We have come a very, very long way and Michael Bloomberg has been at the forefront of that change.

As the Independent Group, we are determined to try to forge a different style of doing politics.

One of the things I wanted to do in the Department for Education was open up the policy making process and run things like wikis in open formats in order to a: start off with better ideas and then b: adapt to errors much faster than is possible with normal Whitehall systems.