Reform Implementation Quotes

If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.

Successful reform requires a long-term vision, driven by political leadership.

The reforms we achieved did not enjoy the support of everybody, but they did receive the support of the majority needed to pass them ...

It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate our reform efforts in order to really to achieve reforms, one by one.

It is better to implement reforms in times of economic strength.

It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way.

One of the most remarkable aspects of the occupation of Japan and Germany was the relatively free hand the occupation forces enjoyed in imposing policy on the conquered country. This was especially dramatic in the case of Japan. There, the occupying forces wrote a new constitution for the country and essentially handed it down to the occupied with little local consultation in ways that are quite astonishing today for their radicalness and their dictatorial quality. In Germany the occupying forces had the luxury of postponing national elections for three years giving them precious time to purge the old guard and reestablish order before putting the new political system to the test.

I believe in health care reform. I don't believe in the way this bill was passed.

These 10 steps, if rigorously followed and enforced, will accomplish more in a matter of months than our politicians have accomplished on this issue in the last 50 years. It's going to happen.

In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again.

Many of you are disillusioned with the performance of this and past governments, and with the unkept promises. But we have to understand that we cannot manage without these reforms.

Only when we have economic growth can we push through fiscal reform.

We can't just say the right thing on lowering the cost of prescription drugs: we have to do the right thing, too.

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

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.

English language training is one of the primary preconditions and instruments to provide the implementation of Armenia's Armed Forces reforms.

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.