Quotes About Reform

Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?

I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.

I want to transform state government. What it takes is a strong CEO type... a leader who can drive things.

President Karzai's regime is not perfect. There are problems of improving governance. But you cannot transform Afghanistan overnight. It is going to be a long-term affair.

We must transform the relationship between police and the communities they serve.

We need to transform our military forces by focusing on force posture, not force structure.

If the party is a broad church, then it only has one priest. It was my job to keep it united and at the same time to ensure that I transform it into a modern liberal party.

The Democratic Party has to transform itself. We can't just pop up every two or four years and hope people will support us.

We can transform our economy.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

The U.S. healthcare industry is undergoing radical transformation with the Affordable Care Act. Evolving thought and business models have little semblance to present mechanisms.

In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.

We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation.

I remain deeply interested in the transformation of the American healthcare system to improve quality and contain costs.

The creation of a digital agency is a reform that will lead to a major transformation of the Japanese economy and society.

When Obamacare was introduced, Republicans and Democrats knew the status quo wasn't working. But Republicans rejected the notion that to help 2 million people with preexisting conditions get access to care, we needed a 2,000-page bill that transformed one-sixth of the economy.

Council house sales defined the new freedoms that transformed this country in the 1980s.

I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New Orleans, probably the most corrupted and failed system in the country.

We are among the handful of countries that has difficulty distinguishing juveniles from adults where crime is concerned. We are convinced that if a child commits an adult crime, that kid is magically transformed into an adult. Consequently, we try juveniles as adults.

The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.

Prime Minister Singh is to be commended for beginning the process of transforming India into a global economic power by initiating economic liberalization in the early 1990s.

A true infrastructure investment must include transforming our economy to handle the climate crisis, supporting care workers, reforming SSI, making child care universal, rebuilding our crumbling public schools, and much more.

The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.

All transitions are hard. We took over a country beaten down by lies and corruption.