Quotes About Reform

Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.

I think people are justifiably fed up of hearing migration talked about at the E.U. level but not seeing anything happen in practice.

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

Oxfam believes that any global talks to reform tax rules must include all countries, including the poorest.

Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.

We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.

For some time, I've said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it's about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you are talking about trillions of dollars infused into the economy.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founders' than any other agency in the world.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Avoid enablers. These are people who make it easy for you to perform your self-destructive behavior. People you go on a smoking break with. People who encourage you to take risks. Your partner, if he or she encourages you to be lazy or feeds you too much food. Try to enlist these people in your reform efforts, and if you can't, put some distance between you.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

As Voltaire would caution, in reforming or transforming the professions, we should not let the best be the enemy of the good.

relaxation of the laws and regulations that govern who can offer legal services and from what types of business. This is a call for liberalization.

F. Kennedy, y repito sus palabras en este momento. Escribo esencialmente para los jóvenes de espíritu, para los enérgicos, para los optimistas; para aquellos que convengan conmigo en reconocer que podemos y debemos modernizar (actualmente me gusta decir "mejorar") nuestro sistema jurídico y nuestro sistema de justicia.

If you wanted to remold people, you had to break them down first.

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" he joked. "Sure," I called over my shoulder. "If I was ever good.

The tax code will never be simplified in our lifetime because it's not about taxes; it's about congressmen distributing the pork.

the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, a liberal immigration bill, some seventy different education bills—they're all passed during the 1960s by President Lyndon Johnson.

The city governments of the United States are the worst in Christiandom - the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt.

The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.

Nope. Gadflies such as yourself are utterly necessary. Nor am I opposed to 'turning the rascals out'—it's usually the soundest rule of politics. But it's well to take a look at what new rascals you are going to get before you jump at any chance to turn your present rascals out.