Quotes About Reform

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

Politicians will have to do the heavy lifting here, because for the most part these are not issues that can be addressed by the Fed or monetary policy.)

the new president will push for action on many fronts.

eliminating it would be a big step backward.

executive pay at any financial institution benefiting from the program should be restricted.

because I knew that there was plenty of blame to go around, including at the Fed and other regulatory agencies and in Congress.

Obama also urged streamlining overlapping regulatory agencies (without getting into specifics),

I was glad to see Obama bringing these issues,

With that law still in place, Citi likely could not have become as large and complex as it did.

But Bush's proposal to add private accounts to Social Security went nowhere, as did his comprehensive immigration plans.

why isn't cutting government spending a viable alternative to maintaining high taxes?

from nonprofit organizations to push Obamacare—the same organizations responsible

Conservative" means maintaining the status quo, and I think the status quo stinks.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

relatives. His most notable service in home politics was his reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connection with the relations of the Colonies with Great Britain, and later with France. In 1757 he was sent to England to protest against the influence of the Penns in the government of the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry

reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connection with the relations of the Colonies with Great Britain, and later with France. In 1757 he was sent to England

What we lack in Government is entrepreneurial ability.

When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.

When I became minister for employment, that was my ideal job because it meant I was able to reflect on what I saw growing up and actually try to change it.

To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.

Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems.