Top 615 Reform Quotes

Reform, that we may preserve.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Reform is not a period of retreat.
David Remnick
Passing comprehensive immigration reform and making DACA and DAPA permanent will free people from living in the shadows of fear from deportation to be able to pursue higher education, buy homes, start businesses, and expand our economy and strengthen the communities of the 10th district and our nation.
Brad Schneider
I believe same-day registration has to be part of comprehensive reform of our voting systems that will also restore pre-clearance, shorten lines at polls, and ensure that no one who wants to vote is denied their constitutional right.
Amy Klobuchar
America’s future as the global leader in innovation remains in the balance until our immigration system is fixed. A large portion of a reform package should focus on updating our system to better reflect the business landscape and market realities of the 21st century.
Brad Feld
Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and the American people. Comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen U.S. security and boost economic growth.
Charles B. Rangel
Fundamentally, I’ve always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone’s paying their fair share but we don’t have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can’t bear it the most.
Pramila Jayapal
Twenty-first century policing reform will require increased investment in law enforcement, not defunding it.
Cal Cunningham
We can pass practical, comprehensive immigration reform.
Jared Polis
So I’ve gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.
Edward Luck
As people in business know, if you just sit on your hands and don’t progress with the changing environment, you won’t reform and improve the existing relationships you have.
Gina Miller
I’ve developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.
Jim DeMint
Here’s what we must do: Completely reform the vetting process for immigrants and foreign visitors. Change the screening process. Come up with a new visa-application review process. Stop this nonsense of marriage-visa fraud. And in the meantime, seal the borders.
Lawrence Kudlow
Health care has gotten really weird politically. We’ve sort of tied ourselves in knots on this issue in a way that we don’t do… for criminal-justice reform or tax policy or climate policy.
Brian Schatz
Every time we’ve had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy – you can even go all the way back to President Coolidge – we have seen paychecks increase, economic growth be ignited, and, actually, more revenues come into the government.
Jeb Hensarling
There’s a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.
Charlie Dent
Tax reform for the 21st century means rewarding hardworking families by closing unfair loopholes, lowering tax rates across the board, and simplifying the tax code dramatically. It demands reducing the tax burden on American businesses of all sizes so they can keep more of their income to invest in our communities.
Kevin Brady
Let me make it clear: I support health care reform. I just don’t support Nancy Pelosi’s version.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
The Arab Spring, nobody’s in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they’re in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
Jack Keane
There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.
Enrique Pena Nieto
It’s no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.
Timothy Noah
Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn’t have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.
Kent Conrad
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India’s citizens and the world.
Henry Paulson
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
John Cornyn
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
Jenny McCarthy
Redistricting reform is one of the most important issues we can tackle.
Nina Turner
Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immig

Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform.
George Packer
As a civil servant in charge of the government’s Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.
Geoff Mulgan
But having said that, what’s happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
Robert McChesney
There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.
Veerappa Moily
I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn’t change my DNA when I got to Washington.
Mike Quigley
You have to reform the visa program. The chain migration system doesn’t work. You need a guest workers program.
Kevin McCarthy
The U.N. is biggest platform for all nations. But slowly, its significance, effect, dignity, and use is being reduced. We should worry that we don’t meet the same fate as League of Nations. Their descent was caused as they were not ready for reform. We shouldn’t repeat that mistake.
Sushma Swaraj
When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain’s productivity.
Philip Hammond
We are committed to doing trade, tax reform, infrastructure. All we need is someone that wants to work with us.
Kevin McCarthy
When you report on Wall Street and health-care reform… what could be more relevant to people’s lives?
Dana Bash
We must pass immigration reform.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.
Grover Norquist
Oxfam believes that any global talks to reform tax rules must include all countries, including the poorest.
Winnie Byanyima
I stated that I’m a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits, free markets, globalization, and a whole series of other things, including welfare reform.
Alan Greenspan
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.
Kirsten Gillibrand
My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.
Chuck Grassley
We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.
Pete Gallego
People understand that any major reform to pensions is likely to create losers as well as winners.
Angela Rayner
Like so many of my generation and those younger, I have spent most of my life in the E.U., and my instincts were naturally for reform from within.
Andrea Leadsom
We’ve got to have comprehensive tax reform.
Bill Flores
I’ve been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
Bruce Rauner
Patrimonial capitalism’s legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
James Surowiecki
As governor, I will work to reform the practice of solitary confinement, which studies and medical and psychological associations say causes negative mental health effects on children, pregnant women and people living with mental illness.
Michelle Lujan Grisham
I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
John Bright
More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers’ union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
Campbell Brown
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
Ben Nelson
Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.
Nicholas Soames
When China fails to live up to its obligations, we push back – sort of. We accept arguments from Chinese leaders that they are a developing country that needs time to reform.
Sherrod Brown
Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
Bob McDonnell
With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.
John Bright