Quotes About Reform

We gotta get Fannie and Freddie out of government ownership. It makes no sense that these are owned by the government and have been controlled by the government for as long as they have.

When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.

One of the noxious features of Obamacare was its forced march into a single, federally designed package of health benefits.

Trillion-dollar bailouts, bloated budgets, and boondoggle spending packages aren't working, at least for my friends and neighbors.

I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

We have never said that we want to challenge the institution of Parliament.

I am naturally centre-left so the areas of education there are things on which I could work quite closely with Labour on... For example, on trying in Parliament to abolish SATs, I would be the first one through the gates.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

This is not about abolishing parliamentary power. It's about rebalancing power.

I'm proud that, in my first year as Lieutenant Governor, we recommended commutation for 19 people serving life without parole sentences and sent them to the Governor's desk to sign - the most since the early 90s.

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

California is among several states that already have fought their way out from under partisan gerrymandering by taking line-drawing authority away from the Legislature.

Jeremy Corbyn... love him. Right person, right time. He's like a poultice, drawing Blairite disease out of the Labour party.

In a way, I got away with a lot because a lot of our partying was done behind closed doors. But I don't ever want to be that person again, who embarrasses my family with my behaviour.

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

The time of Milosevic has long passed.

If the president wanted to fix our broken immigration system, he could start by securing the border and enforcing the laws already passed by Congress.

I can't think of anything right now that could be more damaging for our economy than passing and putting into effect and implementing Obamacare.

Just passing laws saying you are not allowed to be racist won't work. You need an educational system in place.

All is interdependent in a civilized society; it is impossible to reform any one thing without altering the whole. Therefore, on the day we strike at private property, under any one of its forms, territorial or industrial, we shall be obliged to attack them all. The very success of the Revolution will demand it.

We will never transform the prevailing system of management without transforming our prevailing system of education. They are the same system.