Bob Schieffer Quotes
Political reforms, without exception, have a down side.
Bob Schieffer, Journalist and Commentator, C-SPAN, December 23, 2003
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He was a skeptic of efforts to reform or to create sophisticated legislation to fix complex problems. Attempts to reform the tax code is a classic example of each new reform opens new loopholes other than the ones which were closed and often more.
Many of the Ukrainian politicians were very corrupt. When she was the Prime Minister the political culture of corruption was so strong that she was not able to break it. When Tymoshenko had been out of office and imprisoned by the new very corrupt opposition, the Ukrainians rose up and after weeks of street protests, the government collapsed and a new government was formed and Tymoshenko was freed from jail. She made this statement shortly after her release.
Although there are many historical and political thinkers who do not agree that upheavals are inevitable or desirable in America, Vann Woodward and many others follow the school of American thought led by Thomas Jefferson and others of the founding fathers. With the exception of the Civil War most of the American upheavals, though painful to many losing privilege and power have not been massively bloody and have been mostly political.
He made this statement a few days after Donald Trump had won the Presidency and one of his slogans was “Drain the Swamp of Washington DC. While there was almost universal support for “Draining the Swamp” among Trump’s supporters, the President Elect had never specified exactly what specific changes should be made. Almost all Americans at that time were in favor of reform of the political system, but there was very little concordance on which areas are most important to reform and on the details of the changes that should be made.
Bob Lloyd Schieffer is an American television journalist. He is known for his moderation of presidential debates, where he has been praised for his capability. Schieffer is one of the few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments: the White House, the Pentagon, United States Department of State, and United States Congress. His career with CBS has almost exclusively dealt with national politics. He has interviewed every United States President since Richard Nixon, as well as most of those who sought the office.
