Quotes About Reform

There are a lot of things wrong with the country, and that doesn't mean America sucks. It means we should improve it.

Jail sucks all the way around.

I am always for change. But I believe in slow and inevitable change and not a forced one, all of a sudden.

I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

We do not have to sit back and suffer the consequences of corrupt government deals and inefficiency, but unless a large number of people are convinced of this, nothing will change.

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

Communities are suffering, children are suffering, and our immigration policy appears in disarray.

In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.

It doesn't suffice to knock the state, to destroy the ideals. Something has to replace those ideals if they're taken away.

Many people say that we have sufficient laws in our country, just that they are not implemented properly. I completely disagree with them. I have studied many of the laws very carefully. We are still being governed by the same colonial laws which existed in British times. They have not been changed. Many of these laws need to be changed.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

I suggest that instead of criticising us, the establishment has a bloody good look at itself.

I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.

On Medicare, I would suggest ridding the system of fraud and bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, to begin with.

When I travel and speak across the country, I often tell college students that we are making a significant mistake when we say to each other that this criminal justice of ours is broken. To say it's broken would be to suggest that it was well designed and had good intentions from the start.

I would suggest that a Green Real Deal is something to be far more excited about than the Green New Deal because the Green New Deal will never happen.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made in the '80s and '90s can never change, is absurd.

My government is continuously improving the GST regime keeping in view the suggestions being received from the business community.

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

The former pension minister, the Liberal Democrat Steve Webb said I was trying to abolish the lump sum. Instead, we are going to keep the lump sum and abolish the Liberal Democrats.