Quotes About Reform

All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little.

He's paid his debt to society. You can't keep a man in jail because you think he might commit a crime

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.

I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.

It is foolish for Republicans to continue opening the door to job-killing tax hikes while Democrats refuse to explain how they propose to reform mandatory spending - mostly entitlements - that makes up almost two-thirds of the federal budget.

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

Before holding elective office - 12 years in the Wyoming House of Representatives and 18 years in the U.S. Senate - I served a different type of time. I was on probation for a federal offense committed as a teenager.

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

The conversation has become so divisive now on all types of immigration reform that it is really hard to move anything.

Things won't change unless we have new types of candidates.

We have to fundamentally change the way people are elected to political office in this country, as well as the types of people that are going into political office. It's dysfunctional because people on each side are only talking to themselves - they're not talking to each other and that is a function of how they get elected.

We don't need more of the same, typical politicians fighting for themselves and for special interests. We need someone to believe in our small-business owners again and someone to champion those folks who play by the rules.

In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.

It's typical at Real Madrid that we often seem to be going through a revolution.

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

Please, please stop saying that Ukraine is a corrupt country, because from now, it's not true. We want to change this image.

We are certain that Ukraine needs profound constitutional reform. In all fairness, we can't see any other way to ensure the stable development of Ukraine but to sign a federal agreement.

My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.

Ultimately, change will happen when problems persist and enough people are concerned.

So we still need a permanent fix. The president would sign the Dream Act tomorrow, the next day, the day after that. That's ultimately the only way to fix this, is for congressional action.

The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside?

The anti-extradition movement is larger and much more organised than the Umbrella Movement in 2014.

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.