Quotes About Reform

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.

Reform is not a one-night stand.

The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.

I believe in health care reform.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.

Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.

Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.

So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.