Quotes About Reform

'Obamacare,' as it's been called, is far too reaching. It's overreaching. It needs to have a lot of it repealed.

Whether we buy into the rhetoric or not, one thing has been made clear: Illegal immigration is a problem reaching a breaking point, and something must be done.

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

If you ever had the misfortune of reading all 2,000 pages of Dodd-Frank, which I have done - and it almost killed me - basically, all it does is create a list of all the things it wants the Fed to fix.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me.

I was involved in the 'reformicon' effort in 2013-2014, which was explicitly, 'We can't just Xerox Reagan.' In the spirit of Reagan, actually, we could rethink things - maybe we need to think more about job-training programs, earned income tax credit, adjust the tax code.

Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power.

When you have a party leadership that is out of touch with the rest of the country, then that's a real problem for the entire party.

I realised how much the system did not want to change.

I've realised that doctors can only help change a certain number of patients, but a Minister of Health can really change things.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

It's a good line to say we're going to get money out of politics. I don't know how realistic it is.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

We have to be realistic: we are not going to be able to deport 11 million people - most are hard-working people.

People have been saying that Amar Singh is more of an intellectual than a grassroot politician but we will prove them wrong. We will pick up problems, explore them in a realistic way and present them in parliament.

The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party.

I believe many people - especially small- and medium-sized enterprises across the European Union - are disenchanted with Europe because we haven't delivered the goods.

I don't think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it.

Caste coalitions will disintegrate in front of good governance.

We have made a full frontal attack on corruption. The question is whether we can address the question of governance in developing countries and, particularly, corruption.

Every person in this country is suffering because of bad governance.

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

I think anybody who looks at my record will say I've been trying to cut government spending and make government live more like families do.

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.