Quotes About Reform

We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

The problem isn't too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

Money in politics is a huge issue.

I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.

We're gonna have a much better health care plan at much less money.

We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

The health care is going to be less money, and we're going to have much better health care.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.