Reform Quotes - Page 26

• Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

  Max Baucus

  America, Essentials, Maintaining

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• Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

  Max Baucus

  Opportunity, Generations, Taxes

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• I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say "If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it." But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

  Ron Wyden

  Promise, Bills, Able

  "The Choice Should Be Yours" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2009.

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

  Boris Yeltsin

  Russia, Effort

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, Catherine A. Fitzpatrick (1994). “Записки президента”, Crown

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• Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Laziness, Way, Ants

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• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  Carl Bernstein

  Political, Movement, Minimum Wage

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• I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, People, Accepting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Order, Civilization, Desire

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• Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Government, Events, Steps

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• I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Believe, Heart, Europe

  "José Manuel Barroso: "How is Britain so open to the world, but so closed to Europe?"". Interview with David Miliband, www.newstatesman.com. July 11, 2012.

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

  Bob Barr

  Hurt, Party, Tea

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• 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.

  Brian Baird

  Real, Special, Bills

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• 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.

  Evan Bayh

  Mirrors, Long, People

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• Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.

  Marsha Blackburn

  America, Government, Entrepreneur

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• So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

  Eric Alterman

  Mistake, Eggs, Decision

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• President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Cutting, President, Saving

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley", www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.

  2 Chainz

  Jobs, School, Voice

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

  John Cornyn

  Zero, Real, America

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• Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

  Kent Conrad

  Care, Kind, Significant

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• Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Quality, Care, Medical

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• I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.

  Margaret Chan

  Thinking, Organization, Important

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2007.

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• Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

  Mario Draghi

  Government, Euro Crisis, Independence

  "'We Couldn't Just Sit Back and Do Nothing'". Interview with Michael Sauga,Anne Seith, www.spiegel.de. October 29, 2012.

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• There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.

  Mario Draghi

  Successful, Europe, Euro Crisis

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

  Charlie Dent

  Cutting, Dollars, Needs

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• I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

  Deb Fischer

  Jobs, Serious, Proposal

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