Quotes About Reform

Throughout the health-insurance reform process, we have had a frequent and consistent dialogue with the business community - small, medium, and large - to analyze and evaluate the impact that reform would have on them. It has been a very instructive and productive dialogue.

I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India's citizens and the world.

Comprehensive immigration reform should be debated and passed by Congress.

We need to hire more black police officers in this country because these are good jobs, and African Americans should have their fair share of good jobs. But we shouldn't do it because we think that's going to change policing. We have to push for police reform in other ways.

The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.

Everywhere, you have a fatigue for reform... that's very serious.

Our biggest achievement was health-sector reform. The success was in making sure that primary health care was the center of gravity in our health system.

One such issue that Arkansans want action taken on is campaign finance reform. And this is a problem that is not really all that complicated.

Boston's justice system is in serious need of reform. Many of its policies and practices are antiquated, expensive, and don't really even make Boston safer.

When it comes to Senate reform, in general, I've always been a believer in an elected Senate and would hope to achieve aspects of Senate reform.

Lost in the often-vitriolic national quarrel over immigration reform is any examination of proposed measures that would result in excessive punishment, such as detention and deportation, for the most minor offenses.

I want immigration reform to come into fruition, and I want it to be comprehensive, and I want it to have a path to citizenship, and I want to be involved politically every day.

We need comprehensive immigration reform so that we're not creating this cycle of poverty and depression and everything that comes with separating a family.

Only in Washington can the pursuit of a conservative agenda, with centrist policies, be depicted as liberal reform.

In fact, when I first came to the Senate, people laughed. I had people telling me, 'There's no way you're going to get a comprehensive criminal justice reform bill done.'

Like so many of my generation and those younger, I have spent most of my life in the E.U., and my instincts were naturally for reform from within.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.

Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.

One of my priorities is criminal justice reform, and there is certainly bipartisan appetite for that. I think we need to eliminate the cash bail system. We need to eliminate mandatory minimums. We need sentencing reform. I think we need parole reform as well.

The Dream Act will be a nightmare for the American people. No doubt, we need immigration reform, but the Dream Act is written far too broadly, and it will only encourage more illegal immigration, promote chain migration, and will be a magnet for fraud.

I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.

Whether we are in or out of the E.U., we must deliver reform at home in order to compete abroad in the 21st century.

I think people want immigration reform. I think people want to see a path for citizenship. I don't think we as a country want to discuss this in the way we do. I don't think we want to separate families. I don't think that's part of our values.