Quotes About Reform

Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.

There are lots of statements that have been made and haven't led to change and reform. For me, the broader discussion around racism - education is key.

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.

Giving low-level offenders a second chance, no matter the color of their skin or the economic status they hold, can create opportunity for all of us.

The only real solution is comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders and provides a path to legal status for non-felons who are here without proper legal documentation.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

The status quo leads to self-destruction.

We do not need more status quo.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN.

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.

Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.

Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons.

In order to truly get deficit spending and federal debt under control, the Trump administration is going to have to eventually address entitlement reform. If not, Trump will not only become part of the Washington status quo on the issue, but will leave burdensome and expensive problems for future generations.

The status quo is not working, and I believe that Donald Trump is going to be a phenomenal president.