Reform Consequences Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.