Governmental Restructuring Quotes

I have never been a believer that serious government problems are solved by reorganization or shifting around bureaucracy.

The period of radical reform is finished.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.

In government change is suspected.

Parliament should be broken up, and the Speaker plucked out of his chair.

Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by people who are deeply, in one way or another, inside this really broken system.

How much reform do you think this institution [Congress] can take?

We have no choice but to reform this country.

Reform is 'the biggest dividend' for China.

People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

It's very complicated when you are reorganizing territories under different ministries. We have to get them all together and transfer jurisdictions. It's a bureaucratic slalom course we have to ski through, but it can be done.

Most of the purposes for which governments formerly existed no longer remain.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.