Quotes About Reform

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

My father saw that there is no way we can stay in the G-20 and grow with this level of corruption. In early 2015, one of his first orders to his team was to collect all the information about corruption - at the top. This team worked for two years until they collected the most accurate information, and then they came up with about 200 names.

Needless to say, innumerable challenges exist in all areas of governance, and much more needs to be done to help the Afghan government assume full responsibility for addressing the concerns of ordinary Afghan citizens.

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

I think we ought to leave the law exactly the way it is, the 14th amendment.

We have spent our time in government fixing the economy.

No retirement system in the world is as broken as ours.

We have bloated, out-of-control, and unresponsive government agencies that need to be reined in and focused by Congress to deliver results.

I think GST is a great outcome. There is no ifs and buts about that. It is a transformational event for India.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

I would not outlaw or eliminate private health insurance. But if we do a good enough job, with a robust public option, there really should not be as much of a need for private insurance in the market.

I was a Thatcherite. But to be fair, I probably have changed my outlook.

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.