Quotes About Reform

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

What is problematic about Obamacare is that it is killing millions of jobs in this country and has killed millions of jobs. It has forced millions of people into part time work. It has caused millions of people to lose their insurance, to lose their doctors, and to face skyrocketing insurance premiums. That is unacceptable.

I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish.

When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading libel law firm, Carter Ruck, from MPs to free speech groups, discussed the issue of corporations. There was unanimous agreement that there needed to be restrictions on the right of corporations to sue in libel.

The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.

Obamacare is an unbelievable job killer.

For any unbiased and realistic enquiry against judges, one needs a full time body, independent of the government as well as of the judiciary, with an investigative machinery under its control, through which it can get complaints investigated.

I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that we can't avoid entitlement reform because we are afraid of third rail politics.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

Progress means to be true to the world, If we need to make a change.

It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

I've never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.