Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The Children's Health Insurance Program has given Democrats a wide-open door for socialized medicine. The door was left open by Republicans, who… — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side,… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have… — Roland H. Hartley Copy Share Image
The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs,… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
When the legislation that passed in the farm bill that says that it’s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to… — Steve King Copy Share Image
There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
There are serious budgetry issues that need to be worked through. Playing a game of lying about what's in the content of… — Tony Burke Copy Share Image
Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
I personally think money in politics on any level is horrible. I'd like to see a set amount and have every candidate… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Carolyn Maloney knows how to get something done, and as I said, it doesn't matter if she's in the majority or the… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are… — Colleen Hanabusa Copy Share Image
Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer,… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to… — Louis J. Freeh Copy Share Image
The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
When we do our legislation, we're not trying to figure out, 'How can I use this to run against you?' We say,… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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