Quotes About Reform

I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.

The OECD should promote everything that's consistent with its mandate, which is to make the world economy work better.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

It is not my job, as Chief Minister, to probe crimes or pronounce anyone guilty. My priority lies in bringing Punjab out of the chaos in which it has been left by the previous government.

To me, the burden of proof isn't on people looking for ways to improve our schools; it's on people who want to keep things the same. Our current system isn't working, and too many kids are being left behind.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

The Affordable Care Act is a public-policy flop of epic proportions.

I would be open to a proposal that would have some minimum tax level for everyone.

If it doesn't have a full delay or defund of Obamacare, I know I and many others will not be able to support whatever the leadership proposes.

Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.

As you may know, I'm the co-founder of a political organization called Real Justice. Our goal is to help elect progressive, reform-minded prosecutors and district attorneys that are committed to ending mass incarceration.

I have no respect for the prosecutors, the judges. And I say that not with malice in my heart. I say it because they took 30 years from me.

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?

It was the Conservatives who first protected people in the mills.

I just hope that we get to a day where we all feel like we feel protected and served by our police force.

They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.

I support DACA, but I also support protecting the border.

Instead of forcing everyone to buy health insurance, Congress should pass a law protecting the uninsured from being charged more than the insurance companies are for a given service.

You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'

There is not adequate whistleblower protection.

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.