Quotes About Reform

I got over 20 people out of prison, some with life sentences and others based on getting their sentences reduced.

No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

Everyone knows that my key drivers to moving health care policies is improving access and reducing costs and improving outcomes.

Do those serving life sentences deserve access to educational opportunities never having a future beyond bars? The answer is yes and necessitates that in-prison education serves additional goals beyond reducing recidivism.

Defund the police does not mean abolish the police. It means a dramatic reduction in the number of police in our poor communities and particularly our poor Black and Brown communities.

Pennsylvania, like every other state in our society, has to begin to adopt and refine the idea of mercy and redemption for our criminal populations.

Nobody wants to take a hard look of the entitlement system to see what it is.

'Stand your ground' laws based on the ALEC model have had harmful consequences and need to be reconsidered.

I'm against the president's health care law because I don't agree that it's going to achieve its goals. I believe in the goals.

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

Replacing your family's current health care with government-run health care is not the answer. In fact, it'll make health care much more expensive.

You have to understand the way the liberal looks at something working. Their purpose here is not to provide you health care cheaply, affordably and plentifully. That's not what this is about to them.

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

As governor, I'll work to lower health care costs for all of us.

Ultimately, in our health care reform efforts, my Administration's goal is to make sure Vermonters have access to affordable health care coverage.

If we were to build a health care system from scratch, single-payer would be the way to go. But we have a very complex health care system in America.

Healthcare is a conservative marketplace.

Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out.

I am not in favor of implementing a Medicare-for-All, single payer healthcare system.

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.