Quotes About Reform

It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public option, universal coverage, an end to insurance policy rescissions, and no restrictions against covering people with pre-existing conditions.

If Obama succeeds in turning health insurance and funding for college into universal entitlements, he will have expanded Washington's obligations on the scale of an LBJ or an FDR.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Xi Jinping is a very strong and ambitious leader who is looking to make a lot of changes in China. He is not looking to follow a Western model based on universal suffrage. That is for sure.

Those who care about constitutional development should look beyond universal suffrage for the chief executive election and turn their sights to universal suffrage for Legco as well.

We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the axiom of 'putting people in jail and throwing away the key' does not apply to all offenders universally and can actually be counterproductive.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no longer is higher or much of an education.

Indian higher education is completely regulated. It's very difficult to start a private university. It's very difficult for a foreign university to come to India. As a result of that, our higher education is simply not keeping pace with India's demands. That is leading to a lot of problems which we need to address.

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.

I think tax reform is the single most important thing we can do in this country to unleash economic energy. It's going to unleash growth.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

Unless we break from sectionalism and sticking to precedents, there will be no revival of Japan.

The Dream Act and the DISCLOSE Act, to name two, had majorities in both chambers during Obama's first term, but they were filibustered to death. They probably await a similar fate unless the filibuster is reformed.

Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

My case was wrongfully decided and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.