The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.
Only in Washington can the pursuit of a conservative agenda, with centrist policies, be depicted as liberal reform.
I’ve seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.
If Republicans and Democrats alike truly believe DACA should stay and be a permanent part of immigration reform, then they should use their elected power to make it so.
Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.
Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson… talking about Europe, talking about political reform.
I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting – this thought reform process – in the military.
Welfare reform passed in the 90s worked because states were given maximum authority along with adequate funding. This model can work for the repeal and replacement of Obamacare.
Many of the worst cases that triggered the campaign for libel reform involved corporations suing critics, so these particular sections of the bill are vital to reduce future abuses of libel law.
When I hear about Mainers rationing their medication or losing their life-savings despite being insured, I know our health care system requires major reform.
Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.
In 2008, I was one of millions united for hope and change. As 2010 dawns, change looks to me like more of the same. Instead of peace, we got more war. Instead of health care reform, we have an industry win that requires Americans to buy health insurance without any real cost controls.
My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around.
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
It’s correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
I don’t believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything – I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I’d been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.
The major reform legislation, Dodd-Frank, was named after two guys bought and sold by special interests, and one of them should be shouldering a good amount of blame for the crisis.
We have to reform the entire political process. It’s got to start with leadership by example.
Good policy usually comes from working across the aisle, and I believe tax reform needs to be tackled with Democrats and Republicans finding common ground.
I am a Democrat and disagree with virtually all of President Trump’s policy positions, including those on healthcare, LGBTQ rights, civil rights, immigration, global warming, gun control, and tax ‘reform.’
I think tax reform is the single most important thing we can do in this country to unleash economic energy. It’s going to unleash growth.
In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.
In my opinion, serving the common good is the true purpose of politics and is also the perspective through which our community should consider constitutional reform.
I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration’s reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
Dave Camp, in my view, made tax reform inevitable in the sense that he showed you could broaden the base and lower the rates and simplify the code and be competitive around the world and make it more understandable.
Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.
It’s a merger of home life and work life. They aren’t that separate, I must confess, and my daughters know an awful lot about childcare reform now because of it.
We need comprehensive immigration reform. Dr. King wouldn’t be pleased at all to know that there are millions of people living in the shadow, living in fear in places like Georgia and Alabama.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
I firmly believe Americans are far better off under tax reform than they ever were sticking with this old, messed up, outdated tax code.
Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.
Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.
I was a truant. And if you’re a truant in New York City, the truant officer gets after you, and then you get into the courts, and then things happen which they really shouldn’t. But I ended up in a very sweet reform school. It’s the place you go to if you’ve got a really kind judge.
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of ‘freedom’, like a bastard brother of reform.
Created by Congress as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the CFPB was a direct response to the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession that began with the subprime mortgage debacle and the unraveling of Lehman Brothers investment bank.
I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
I’ve never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn’t reform.
Social Security’s future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
I work with the president and speak with him multiple times a week. This is a man, he didn’t become the president by accident. And as much as everyone wants to talk about stability, was he unstable when he passed the tax reform? Was he unstable when we finally hit back at Syria and said no more chemical weapons?
Tort reform is a complicated subject and not a panacea.
We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.
Labour accepts that the European Court of Human Rights needs reform.
We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.
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.
The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.
History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement… they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.
I have no problem with military and entitlement reform, lower costs raise freedom.
Thanks to health reform, women across the country with private insurance can get birth control without paying out of pocket. This lets women make the health care decisions that are right for them and puts every one of us in charge of our own reproductive health.
