Quotes About Reform

I'm working alongside the White House and other members in the House to lessen the tax burden that currently weighs on so many Oklahomans.

The White House would love to see Obamacare taken apart all at once, bit by bit, however we can do it.

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.

Whoever becomes Education Secretary has to have a love and passion for public schools. Not charter schools, not vouchers, but public schools.

This country needs nothing less than wholesale federalisation. The reasons are threefold: economic, democratic and cultural.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.

The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.

Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don't say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed.

Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light of later events.

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?

The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.

It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

Victims of crime and the wider community deserve a grown-up debate on our criminal justice system and how we can make it work - for those within it and for those it protects.

Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

I understand reform to mean the perfection of what previous generations have already done. I'm not an advocate of destroying, 'kroshat,' and then selling like they do in Russia. That's how we can prevent the wild corruption in our state like they have in the other post-Soviet states.

Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.

I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

I'm not for a temporary war tax. We're putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we're gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.

On average, a prisoner in the U.S. spends around ten years on Death Row before execution.