Quotes About Government

The federal government should encourage rather than micromanage market reform in all 50 states. Since health care is local, private-sector innovation in conjunction with state-level reform of the individual and small-group markets is a better approach.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.

A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to do it.

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

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

I believe in health care reform.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

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.

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

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

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.

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

The Seanad question was one element of a process of change and reform to politics that government has been pursuing.

Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws.

Do we need farm program reform? Absolutely.

As a practicing physician for over 30 years, I can assure the president that the majority of physicians in this country are for health-care reform - just not the government-run reform he prefers.

If someone really wanted to end Medicare, they wouldn't propose a reform: they would do nothing.

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.