Reform Quotes

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages.

Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, while proponents of immigration reform say the Florida Republican was quick to retreat when the going got tough.

We have to do immigration reform while the pro-deportation crew is still reeling.

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

There seems to be a lot of momentum behind immigration reform.

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

After all, Bill Clinton is the guy that signed welfare reform.

I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.

[Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Marriage is not a reform school.

Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been prowling this wilderness since he was 16 years old.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.

I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform.

I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.

Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.

You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive.

Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer.

The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that.

We're looking forward to getting our monitor appointed and we're looking forward to all of the reforms that will take place under this consent decree.

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill!

Internal reform in Russia would require a better relationship with the West.

Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.

We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.