Reform Quotes - Page 33

• Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of around 8 percent each year through 2015 and will continue to eat up more of the total federal budget.

  John Cornyn

  Average, Years, Doe

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• In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

  Atul Gawande

  Stories, Movement, Care

  "Annals of Public Policy" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2009.

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• We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

  Kent Conrad

  United States, Swamps, Care

  "State of the Union" with John King, www.cnn.com. March 29, 2009.

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• The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Quality, Benefits, Care

  "My Open Letter on Health Insurance Reform" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2009.

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• What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

  Naomi Wolf

  Dream, Expansion, United States

  "How the Mitt Romney video killed the American Dream" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• ...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular reforms and quell the mutinies. Corporate Globalization-or shall we call it by its name?-Imperialism-needs a press that pretends to be free. It needs courts that pretend to dispense justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Dream, Fighting

  California River Watch 2011 Annual Statement, criverwatch.org. 2011.

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• I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.

  Mario Monti

  Believe, People, Culture

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• America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

  Hank Johnson

  America, Common Sense, Immigration

  "Time Is Right for Comprehensive Immigration Reform" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

  Susana Martinez

  Needs, Care, Latino

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• When Congress talks of tax reform, grab your wallet and run for cover.

  Steve Symms

  Running, Government, Congress

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• No true reform has ever come to pass Unchallenged by a liar and an ass.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Liars, Government, Ass

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• I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Believe, Needs

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Crush, People, Needs

  "Sen. Warren Introduces Bill On Student Debt". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wnyc.org. May 6, 2014.

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• No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas that call for reforms, but they cannot tolerate the idea that there will be no state, no central authority. So it is very important for them to ridicule the idea of anarchism to create this impression of anarchism as violent and chaotic. It is useful for them.

  Howard Zinn

  Ideas, People, Doubt

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• True repentance always involves reform.

  Hosea Ballou

  Repentance, True Repentance

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• I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

  Julian Assange

  Hands, Australia, People

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• 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 Rangel

  Country, People, Growth

  "Oscar for Valid Dreamers" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2014.

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• Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

  Aaron Klein

  Voting, Immigration, Gains

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• One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

  Anne Wojcicki

  Care, Prevention, Aspect

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• Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Quality, Purpose, Education Reform

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• There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.

  Rob McKenna

  Needs, Analogies, Spirit

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• I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Issues, Feelings, Important

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• When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Obamacare, President, Women's Health

  Remarks by Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the Demcoratic National Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I think in 2012 one of the primary issues that will get a lot of discussion will be comprehensive tax reform.

  Tom Reed

  Thinking, Issues, Taxes

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• From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

  Kenneth Frampton

  Block, Opening Up, Space

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