Quotes About Reform

When the culture of police departments is sometimes infused with bias or preconceived ideas against certain groups, there needs to be reform and retraining throughout. And unfortunately, we cannot rely on local departments to police themselves; we need intervention from the top.

Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways.

I think our politicians are bought by the highest bidder and that until we clean up our election system, then we cannot make progress on any of the issues. That's what drives me - we must restore our democracy.

Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

As Congress focuses on comprehensive health care reform, one thing needs to be clear: We cannot fix health care if we do not address America's nursing shortage.

We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.

At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs in this country, but we cannot expect them and should not expect them to change the nature of policing.

We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.

We cannot have a mayor who does not support pension reform. We cannot have a mayor who will not support managed competition for city services when voters passed it overwhelmingly.

We cannot police our way to public safety.

The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

How are we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working America know that the Democratic party is absolutely on their side? That's the real question.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

If any place in America needs to close, it is Congress.

Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become.

Obamacare has eliminated choices for millions of families, suffocated patient-centered medical innovation, and moved the United States closer to European-style centralized planning.

There are a lot of plans out there for fixing health care.

The First Step Act, the WEEE Act, and President Trump's infrastructure and immigration compromise plans all serve as examples of Trump administration outreach to the Democrats.

We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy.

The Democrats' radicalism does not end with illegal immigration and health care. It extends into other aspects of their policy platforms.

The media has a key role to play in ending corruption.

Legislation to level the playing field for working families is dead on arrival in the Citizens United Congress.