Quotes About Reform

The bureaucrats tremble because they don't perform. In the past nobody checked their work. Now that I do it they are scared.

America draws tremendous strength from its diversity, which prompts the question, as Congress contemplates comprehensive immigration reform, why are some lawmakers aiming to curb diversity instead of promoting it?

We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.

In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.

One of the greatest challenges of democracies today is the question of financing campaigns. It's a tremendous challenge. Obviously I think the solution is to have the governments pay for all the campaigns and not to have any private contributions.

At the most basic level, if men have institutional power, they have tremendous influence to change those institutions.

I'm not one to say many good things about Obamacare, but one of the nice things in it is it does give a tremendous amount of authority to the secretary of HHS.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

ObamaCare has accelerated many of the detrimental trends doctors see in their profession, and introduced new ones.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Courts are too distant from the communities they put on trial.

Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.

Tort reform is important. We need to prevent trial lawyers from killing good jobs.

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

You have regulations on top of regulations, and new companies cannot form and old companies are going out of business. And you want to increase the regulations and make them even worse.

China into something resembling a free-market autocracy.