Reform Consequences Quotes

Congress has been reformed so much that it can't get anything done.

One generation's reform becomes the next generation's problem.

Remember that every dollar saved by health care reform is a dollar less for somebody’s earnings.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

People understand that any major reform to pensions is likely to create losers as well as winners.

I have never seen the author of a reform bill who was able to predict accurately what would really happen when the bill was passed.

The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally changed the signals and the incentives facing low-income people and encouraged a variety of trends that soon became self-reinforcing.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.