Quotes About Reform

The other political parties hurriedly dissolved themselves,

If suffering through four years of hellishly misguided big government is the price we pay for true reform, it may in the end be worth it.

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

FBI investigations alone will never take corruption out of politics. They take too much effort, and they attack the problem serially, one target at a time.

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) liberalized

While the entire US population has increased by about a third since 1980, the federal prison population has grown at an astonishing rate – by almost 800 per cent. It's still growing – despite the fact that federal prisons are operating at nearly 40 per cent above capacity. Even though this country comprises just 5 per cent of the world's population, we incarcerate almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.

Overthrow the bureaucracy, and return to a system based on human responsibility.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas," John Maynard Keynes famously observed, "but in escaping from the old ones.

minister, developed in importance during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Until the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, the committees were shrouded in secrecy. No details were given about them:

destroy. Change had to take place without doing violence to the existing

themselves were deemed inadequate to meet Britain's fundamental

Maybe everything needs to change.

Reform fatigue" is more likely to set in if countries are stuck in a debt trap with no light at the end of the tunnel.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk to the mother who desperately wants more for her child and offer a constructive way out. We can't simply lambaste... food stamps or decry dependency.

If people really want to sit down and visit and talk about things like health care, which is a very, very important issue in Montana, I think oftentimes you want to get to the same goal. And that is affordable health care costs.

Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of power over another person's life, there's a role for that, but you have to know the kind of power you are exercising.

I've been going to visit people in prison since I was a kid.

Years now, decades, of visiting my parents behind bars taught me hard lessons about how broken the criminal justice system is - about how devoid of compassion it is. It's not healing the harm that victims experience. It's not rehabilitating people. And in many ways, it's making us less safe.

Here's what we must do: Completely reform the vetting process for immigrants and foreign visitors. Change the screening process. Come up with a new visa-application review process. Stop this nonsense of marriage-visa fraud. And in the meantime, seal the borders.

I argued that until FBI director James Comey gives a green light to new visas, and not until we completely reform the vetting process for new foreign visitors, that the borders should be sealed.