Quotes About Reform

People had lost trust in governance. Getting back that trust, instilling a sense of hope and belief that good governance and development would be back on track, is my biggest achievement.

As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.

You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive.

The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.

Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.

Democracy is a system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law. Whether you are the family of Breonna Taylor or David Dorn, these are the ideals that will heal our nation's wounds.

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.

The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.

Under no circumstances will I allow the Fianna Fail party back into government. They wrecked the economy twice.

Será que o diabo já se esforçou para ser bom de novo ou, se fizer isso, não é um demônio?

Machiavelli knew enough to say the following: "There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.

Experience has taught me that privacy truly is the touchstone of our criminal justice system.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it's not about truth and justice or balance. It's about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you're putting the wrong person behind bars.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.