Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation… What I want to do is to get through that, and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its… — A. V. Dicey Copy Share Image
But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
With respect to some of the specific legislation or initiatives that I've made, it's true that Republicans often opposed these things. Sometimes… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think we have muddled the terms of marriage, civil partnership, registry office, church etc. I would have liked that to have… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent… — Randy Neugebauer Copy Share Image
Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United… — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
The Communal Land Rights Bill then said, since there would be those collectives set up in terms of the other legislation, there… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We're talking of passing the legislation that repeals and replaces Obamacare with a patient-centered system that brings down prices and expands choices,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that… — Sandra Fluke Copy Share Image
In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I think that part of the problem that arose with that legislation, is that there probably wasn't sufficient information - probably there… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and… — David Duke Copy Share Image
People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land.… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really… — Moby Copy Share Image
Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the… — Friedrich Naumann Copy Share Image
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some… — Josh Earnest Copy Share Image
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