Quotes About Reform

Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.

America's tax code is beyond repair. Tinkering with it won't work. The only hope is a bold tax-reform plan that will liberate our nation from the slow-growth status quo and jump-start a new era of American prosperity and growth.

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years old. It's tired. It's acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don't get taken away.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.

To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.

Democrats and all public servants just need to be honest. If we have schools that aren't working ... we need to face the facts and fix them.

If democracy as we know it has to survive the elites have to regain their credibility. And they have to start by admitting that their economic model is broken.

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system.

To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out.

Saudi Arabia isn't the enemy, but it is a problem. It could make so much positive difference in the Islamic world if it used its status to soothe Sunni-Shiite tensions and encourage tolerance. For a time, under King Abdullah, it seemed that the country was trying to reform, but now under King Salman, it has stalled.

No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences.

Corruption has been tolerated for too long now, and with Buhari, we will, for the first time ever, have a president who will fight corruption. He will act so that people will be deterred from corruption.

Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

The punishing conditions helped birth the protest and reform groups' remarkable solidarity. But those conditions were not experienced by—or even visible to—other classes. And the nation's leadership did everything it could to thwart egalitarian tendencies. Between 1914 and 1945, however, the industrialized world and much of its periphery suffered a series of disasters that were absolutely generalized.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

The responsibility of people in power is to continually eliminate useless traditions and introduce valuable ones.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.