The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations… can never effect a reform.
Now it’s time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods… and real ethics reform at City Hall.
The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.
Health reform is an essential part of restoring America’s economy and maintaining our competitiveness.
Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said – Americans felt like they weren’t being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don’t want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan.
One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
When you’re dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform.
Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.
If you say, I’m for equal pay, that’s a reform. But if you say. I’m a feminist, that’s a transformation of society.
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.
I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most – hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class.
I was a co-sponsor of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
I am pretty heavy into causes. I’m an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.
Actually, I’m a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.
We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform.
Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.
I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.
Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college’s incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born.
We’ve unveiled the most comprehensive reform budget people have seen in a generation.
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
Bill Clinton worked with a Republican Congress. They certainly had their differences on many issues, but look at what they also accomplished. Welfare reform – that was maybe the most significant social policy achievement in two generations.
We need to have comprehensive immigration reform and that means there should be a path for citizenship. And certainly I support the DREAM Act to help all of these young people who were brought here.
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
Nothing says ‘economic growth’ like fundamental tax reform.
As the leader of Southeast Asia’s oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day.
But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.
There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family’s health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.
You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.
Tax reform shouldn’t add one penny to our deficit or to the tax bills of middle-class Americans.
Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.
The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won’t primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.
America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.
I think we’ll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.
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.
In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants.
Senator Obama and I had been on the same side of many fights, and we had worked together on the issue that is most urgent to me – comprehensive immigration reform.
I’m intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.
Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
Let’s start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.
Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.
We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan’s exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions… and we need to do it under tight control.
Getting the budget balanced, regulatory reform, tax reform – I think these lead to economic growth.
I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
In ‘Burrraah,’ I play a teacher whose aim is to reform a bunch of rowdy boys. My character is very interesting and I chose this film for a Punjabi debut because of its story, script, screenplay and director, Sagar Sharma. I love the way he narrates a story.
If anything, what happened in Iraq after the fall of Saddam set back prospects for democratic reform in the region, as many came to associate political change with chaos.
We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to get it through an employer.
The system designed to study, diagnose and treat cancer in the United States is broken, and it is in urgent need of reform.
In terms of immigration, we’re seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform,’ and they don’t totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it’s part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.
We’re going to do tax reform to let people keep more of what they earn, grow an economy, and be able to save for your children’s future and buy a new house.
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.
Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted.
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
The Socialists did not want to work with us, so we created an alliance with the FPO, and we are making good policies of reform for our country.
The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there’s going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don’t believe any of that’s going to move forward until our border is secured.
