Quotes About Policy

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.

I believe in health care reform.

I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy.

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.

Nurses are on the front lines of our care. And they need to be at the foundation of health care reform. Let's get health care done - and done right - by ensuring the amount of nurses we need to provide quality care for all.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

Reform is 'the biggest dividend' for China.

In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes it very attractive for us to invest on acquisition overseas.

If immigration reform doesn't happen, that doesn't say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn't pass it.

Like all of my colleagues, I believe financial reform is necessary now.

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

But I can tell you another engine for growth and job creation would be comprehensive immigration reform.

The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.

We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.