Quotes About Reform

We must not extend nor expand Obamacare. We need a completely different solution to help those caught in the Obamacare snare.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.

Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.

Lawmakers who attempt to find solutions to the havoc ObamaCare has wreaked across the nation are taking healthcare protections away from newborns.

I'm not a huge believer that government provides a whole lot of solutions.

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.

Locking minors away for decades doesn't solve anything.

With Obamacare's fate in jeopardy, Democrats have no solutions to solve the mess they forced upon Americans.

Our country needs help, and I think the best way to help the country is to bring new energy, new ideas, and new leaders to solve the problems.

If you took money out of politics, you'd solve 80 percent of all the problems.

Politicians of all kinds think there's some running in talking tough about children's reading. They think that if they announce to the public that some kind of daily drilling on sounds and letters is to be brought in, the problem of children's reading will be solved.

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the Chinese people, not due to the inexorable workings of any particular technology.

It is traditional in America to criticize the schools; for more than a century, parents, self-styled experts, and educators themselves have attacked and indicted the educational system.

One should not have to spend four years in graduate school in order to learn how to read. Four years of graduate school, in addition to twelve years of preparatory education and four years of college—that adds up to twenty full years of schooling. It should not take that long to learn to read. Something is very wrong if it does.

When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are things that I do respect. They have to earn that respect. They have to earn it by serving people. They don't earn it just by age or legality or tradition.

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince