Quotes About Reform

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that we've had for a long time.

We've got to stop being the stupid party. It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults.

There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

In America, the first thing we have to get rid of is entitlements for the wealthy, and at the same time, open up the economy to the disadvantaged.

I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.

You can't take 11 [million people ] at one time and just say, boom, you're gone.

The time has come to give Americans the freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines.

Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I'll let him explain why.

Politics is a waste of time.

We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so long since somebody asked them to look backwards.

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.

The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Obamacare takes effect in less than eight months. Do you realize what this means? If you go to the emergency room now, you'll be covered by the time you finally see a doctor.

Democrats don't have a lot of time to turn the party around.

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.