Quotes About Reform

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Happy birthday Obamacare! Five years ago today you came into our lives and nothing's ever been the same since! Our insurance premiums have skyrocketed and our doctor choices have plummeted.

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

We're going to start making things again in America. As part of our plan to bring back our jobs, we're going to lower our business tax from 35 percent to 15 tax, the biggest since Ronald Reagan.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

We need to repeal and replace Dodd-Frank act. We need to make America fair again for all businesses, but especially those being run by small business owners.

One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

We'll be passing tax relief for small business owners and working families across the country.

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

The Enlightenment may be summoned up in two words: criticism and power.

Those who wonder why the American tax code is so complex, convoluted, and constantly changing fail to appreciate what a wonderful tool it is for extortion.

Throw Them All Out

Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today. That, however, is not a ground for dismissing them. If every proposal for reform in ethics that differed from accepted moral views had been rejected for that reason alone, we would still be torturing heretics, enslaving members of conquered races, and treating women as the property of their husbands.

This was due to the intervention of a benevolent ruler, King Sejong, who in 1403 issued an extraordinary decree, which sounds enlightened even today and must have been extremely so at the time. 'To govern well,' he said, 'it is necessary to spread knowledge of the laws and the books, so as to satisfy reason and to reform men's evil nature; in this way peace and order may be maintained.

They're both plutocracies, rule by the rich. If they had won, all they'd have thought about was making more money, the upper class. Abendsen, he's wrong; there would be no social reform, no welfare public works plans - the Anglo-Saxon plutocrats wouldn't have permitted it.