Legislation Quotes · Page 3

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

— Milton Friedman

We can't abolish prejudice through laws.

— Belva Ann Lockwood

The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation.

— John McCain

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

— William Howard Taft

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

— Allen West

Part of what we should be thinking about, whenever legislation is passed, is, 'how does this affect all varieties of communities?'

— Sharice Davids

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation…

— Mary Matalin

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

— Jamie Dimon

The beauty for Trump is that [Paul] Ryan et. al have worked on all this legislation and he is going to be…

— Mary Matalin

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

— Ted Cruz

I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.

— Rand Paul

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five…

— Ronald Reagan

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage…

— James Callaghan

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help…

— Ted Danson

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour,…

— Carol Bellamy

Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works…

— Fred Reed

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that…

— Valerie Jarrett

Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,…

— Rafael Cruz

I am sick and tired of folks that are doing everything they can to try to get a bad bill going, and…

— Matt Salmon

One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at…

— Emanuel Cleaver

There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people…

— Duncan Green

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do…

— Barry Goldwater

I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed…

— Abigail Van Buren

The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and…

— Ronald Reagan

Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still…

— Deborah Meier

More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of…

— Ronald Reagan

People ask me a lot, 'Well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist?' And I…

— Jessica Valenti

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

— Charles Koch

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

— Lawrence Lessig

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

— Thomas Francis Meagher

We respect and support the example set by President José Mujica of Uruguay in proposing legislation that regulates the cannabis market

— Otto Perez Molina

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

— Carter Heyward

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

— Lamar Alexander

Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.

— Smriti Irani

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

— Alice Hamilton

If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.

— Solon

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account

— Tony Abbott

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

— Tippi Hedren