Quotes About Reform

The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

European officials thought that austerity was part of what they called their 'convergence policies,' of trying to bring countries together. Instead, it actually made things worse. There's more inequality within countries and more disparity across countries.

There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force policies that are used in departments across the country.

When I was younger, I remember families like mine who had to deal with the disastrous policies of the 1970s.

Every day, children who are U.S. citizens are separated from their families as a result of immigration policies that need fixing.

I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.

There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

We need to have something that is reworked, that deals with immigration, that is not thinking in terms of policing.

I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.

When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed.

Policy change is nothing if it's not patient work.

Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.

Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap.

I have decided to create a new political movement.

Political parties - which too often operate like closed circles - must open up.

Forward movement is a good thing, but I always include that it's not enough, and we have to have a base where we can truly build. That cannot be done inside of the corporate, establishment political parties.

I'm a firm believer that if we could restore real parliamentary democracy, the best way to do that would be to get rid of political parties.

There is no merit in our political parties.