Quotes About Reform

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

It's hard to modernize a country kept in physical or ideological isolation.

Had the reckoning gone too far, with innocent men tarnished with less-than-convincing proof, or not far enough, with a frustrating lack of systemic change?

Our broken criminal justice system has rejected individual justice and discretion it requires, and instead insists on robotic and inflexible mandatory sentencing, sentencing guidelines, death sentences, life without possibility of parole, the actual or de facto elimination of sentence modifications, pardons, commutations, expungement, and record sealing." - Lary Krasner

But things are always going to be better, or were better long ago. No politician ever got anywhere by telling people things are just right as they are.

El capitalismo y la democracia liberal habían fracasado estrepitosamente a lo largo de la década de 1930. Muchos creyeron que había llegado el momento de probar algo distinto.

public demonstrations, a freer press, and freer elections were not enough to keep the Soviet Union together.

lectures include a discussion of what has happened to Russian industry over the past twenty-plus years.

The majority of American women have demanded over the last half century that society reject and revise traditional norms about what women want and what they can do. It is time to do the same for men. WHAT

I'd like to professionally... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again - not one person.

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

Changing the world in a profound and beneficial way is not enough to put a dint in bureaucracies which operate on their own dynamics.

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Make no mistake: Obamacare is a pro-death 'health' program.

When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

We have programs that are outdated and no longer effective - we need to get rid of those programs.

The way our federal agencies are funded, the way the authorizing of these programs are done, I think needs to be completely revamped.

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.