Sam Graves Quotes

Regulatory reform is my agenda. I intend to thoroughly work on this.

My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.

My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

Common sense is very uncommon.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

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.

Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to taking sensible looks at positions and understanding the proper role of government.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

No political cliche can stand up to reality.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

If I could solve these problems with passing laws in the Congress, I would do so.

My goal is to get leadership to bring more conservative policies to the floor; it's not the other way around to get conservatives to vote for something they don't like. It's to get a more conservative product, and we've actually delivered on a number of occasions there.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.

We must pass immigration reform.

I've taken legislation that people have been trying to pass for 10 or 15 years, and I got it passed.

I like common sense, to try and be the voice of reason at work.

It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.

I have always been saying that while - the legislative reforms are good, but there are so many low-hanging fruits that we have look for by taking executive decisions. I think the government is actually moving in the right direction.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.