Quotes About Reform

There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.

If you want more of the same, Mitch McConnell is your guy. He is the ultimate insider. He is the epitome of dysfunction in Washington.

If I were able to do something unilaterally, I would probably institute a new federal rule that said all cases worth less than $500,000 would be tried without any discovery.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

We can make American governing institutions better, but we can't make them better if nobody wants to go into them because we're bashing them.

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

We have institutions that have been allowed to become too big to fail because we had all kinds of flaws in our financial infrastructure, in the whole way over-the-counter derivatives work.

The E.U., its institutions, structure and ways of working are an anachronism.

In order for New York to not only get back to where we were, but to finally fulfill our potential as the greatest city on Earth, we need people in charge who are going to fight for the working class, and not the corrupt institutions that have taken advantage of a broken system.

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

America doesn't have health insurance.

In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.

Sound health policy is about so much more than the mechanics of insurance. Let's stop letting 'Medicare-for-all' dominate the conversation.

The controversial idea of abolishing private insurance in favor of a single, government-run program certainly deserves some rigorous back-and-forth. But not at the expense of issues with a much greater impact on our health.

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

My intentions are to try to make this state better.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

I have set out to change the language of the international system.