Quotes About Reform

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs.

We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to get it through an employer.

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy.

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.

I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

Nurses are on the front lines of our care. And they need to be at the foundation of health care reform. Let's get health care done - and done right - by ensuring the amount of nurses we need to provide quality care for all.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.

People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through, and it really helps you out. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future.

I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.

Reform is 'the biggest dividend' for China.

In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes it very attractive for us to invest on acquisition overseas.

If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.

Conversations with my counterparts in Europe have made clear that many of them recognize NATO's limitations and understand the need for reform.

I don't think that the Democrats are doing anything right. They certainly haven't delivered on the promise of creating more jobs for Latinos. They have not delivered on the promise of bringing immigration reform up to the forefront. They had a sitting president; they had both houses of Congress. They could have done something, but they did nothing.