Quotes About Reform

The fact is I tried for years to work with the financial industry on reasonable swipe fee reform, but the industry wouldn't have it.

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.

In Sydney, it's not sustainable to have 41 council entities.

The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.

Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

I think there are real dangers to escalating military conflict with ISIS, and we need to be aware of them. But at the same time, you have to understand, you know, that this whole thing started with Bashar al-Assad and how he is the one who continued to escalate against the people of Syria who were trying to get democratic reform.

A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Jeb Bush is the foremost authority on education reform in the Republican Party, and I will look to reform the ballooning costs of our higher education system along the lines that he has advocated.

Education is the key to abolishing caste system.

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

If everyone simply ignores the caste system, it will go away overnight.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

People bring up Willie Horton or some other political bombshell in the past, but what they're not being intellectually honest about is if we do not work on early release, if we do not rehabilitate 95 percent of the people who go into the prison system and come out, far more innocent people are going to be harmed.

As many have pointed out, it is not clear that we need so many public sector banks. The system could be better off if they are consolidated into fewer but healthier banks.