Quotes About Reform

It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.

I served three terms in the U.S. Senate and was co-chairman of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in 2010. So I know a bit about how Washington operates, and I have had plenty of experience doing the work of running for office.

Well, I'm going to try to make a real difference in Washington's spending patterns.

When you say the people you mean, of course, the populace. Will you abolish it? That is the only way to ameliorate its lot, for as long as it remains populace its lot will be damnation.

At least you will admit—you have, in fact, admitted it—that we could not be worse governed than we are?" "That is not the point. The point is should we be better governed if we replaced the present ruling class by another? Without some guarantee of that I should be the last to lift a finger to effect a change. And what guarantees can you give?

Politicians today vow, "Never again!" But they will naturally focus only on dealing with a few scapegoats, not just because the system is harder to change, but also because if politicians traced the fault lines, they would find a few running through themselves.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

Such painful awareness of one's sin easily tempts one to despair, discouragement, and deep "depression"; thinking reform is hopeless, one may "surrender irrevocably to the world." Bernard calls this despair the greatest evil of all, and insists that God's mercy is always available whenever a sinner turns to Him.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement.

will be remembered also for the great interest he took and the trouble he took over the question of Hindu law reform.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

YOU CANNOT REFORM A SYSTEM THAT WAS DESIGNED TO OSTRACIZE AND MARGINALIZE A CERTAIN CLASS OF PEOPLE i.e THE POOR. IT WAS A SYSTEM FATALLY FLAWED AND DESIGNED AS REPRESSIVE AB INITIO! IT IS SELECTIVELY GENOCIDAL, AND ITS LAWS MUST BE DISOBEYED.

That's what all of us want, why we're getting involved in so many campaigns - we want to leave football in a better place than when we came into it.

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.

I'd get rid of it, just get rid of the draft altogether. We'd just deal with the salary cap.

In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

Blame me for capitalism. Blame me for EpiPen.