Quotes About Reform

That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.

You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

Once you're a felon you're a target.

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.

We have made changes at the USDA in our personnel and in the attitude that we would like to instill in our personnel. Some don't want to do that and some protest and some target me.

We need to rethink a system that has targeted young people, particularly young people of color, for nonviolent crimes.

Targets don't fight crime.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.

As a civil society, our task is to pressure governments into democratic changes.

I know that we have to get in there and do something if we want to change the system and get a better government. But the whole task is very daunting. If I join either the Congress or the BJP, I will be forced to follow their systems and then I may not be able to do anything significant to change things.

Selecting about 100 judges of the higher judiciary every year in a rational and fair manner is an onerous task requiring a full-time and not an ex-officio body. An ex-officio body of sitting judges and ministers cannot devote the kind of time required for this job.

It's time to roll back superfluous governmental regulations and limit government to its sole task: safeguarding the rights of its citizens.

If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

When I became president with a commitment to reform health care, Hillary was a natural to head the health care task force. You all know we failed because we couldn't break a Senate filibuster. Hillary immediately went to work on solving the problems the bill sought to address one by one.

Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.

I do see great opportunity to make reforms to our tax code, making it simpler, fairer and removing corporate loopholes.

Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!

The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.