Quotes About Reform

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

I'm all for accountability courts and helping those who need helping.

Cops are doing crazy things now, and they catching theyselves; bodycams, carcams. But until they really start giving these cops time - 50 years, 100 years - it's not gonna stop. As long as they keep getting off, nothing's gonna happen. It's been going on since before N.W.A.

I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

We need to adopt a new currency. It doesn't matter what or how we call it - lira, sterling, Roman sesterce.

I believe very deeply that the world would be a better place if it weren't run as it's currently run, which is by men.

More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

I think dealing with climate change should be a centerpiece of any campaign in the 2020 election cycle. Yet I'm the only one with a bipartisan carbon tax bill.

Global governments should start seriously talking about the creation of a World Tax Authority with the mission to ensure that tax systems will deliver for the public interests in all countries.

We should all agree that we should repair roads and bridges and water systems.

For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change.

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a fairy-tale. We broke that old stereotype by reforming our political, economic and social systems concurrently since 1990.

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.

We need to stop hoping that our systems will right themselves. We need to actually take the reins of government and fix our institutions. We need to save lives by making change at every level.

Old, deeply engrained systems take time to change, but we can't leave it to time.

What we're dealing with is institutional, and unless systems are put into place that will ensure accountability, we can expect racially biased police practices to continue.

Our anti-corruption systems have inherently and intently been kept flawed.

Obamacare has made a mess of our health insurance and health care systems, and Washington politicians have failed to fix the problem.

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis.