Quotes About Reform

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot - based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.

During my seven years and eight months as chief Cabinet secretary, I noticed that when policies are slow to move forward, it's usually because of bureaucrats' sectionalism and a penchant for sticking with precedents.

I will do everything I can... to make sure that Poland sticks to a development that fosters the rule of law, democracy.

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony conviction makes finding gainful employment difficult, if not impossible.

I think it is a very important point for India to create a bureaucracy that lives on the ground and gets its stimulus from how life is on the ground.

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.