Quotes About Reform

At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.

When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.

We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

When I took over in 2000, Odisha was in a terrible financial state due to various policies, some of them unpopular.

I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.

If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

Alabama has no choice but to reinvent our corrections system by replacing outdated and unsafe facilities that pose a great risk to public safety - and inhibit development of programs for inmate rehabilitation.

Significantly reorienting our immigration system towards skilled workers and away from unskilled aliens should be a non-negotiable quid pro quo for amnesty.

I'm trying to push for common-sense gun reform and mental illness reform so we can make sure that these individuals that have a criminal background that are mentally unstable and have a history of domestic violence are no longer able to get a gun.

Why doesn't anyone care that the schools in Harlem have been unsuccessful for half a century? Why is this not a big deal? To me, it's a terrible deal.

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.

Obamacare is unaffordable, unworkable and unsustainable.

The status quo on prescription drug prices is deeply broken and unsustainable.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.'

The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there's going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don't believe any of that's going to move forward until our border is secured.

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.