Legislation Quotes · Page 5

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

— Tom Udall

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

— Andrew Cuomo

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

— John Dewey

Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.

— George W. Bush

I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'

— Gough Whitlam

Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

— Arun Jaitley

We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee,…

— Claire McCaskill

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

— Thomas Jefferson

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and…

— David Baker

As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just…

— Christina Romer

To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for…

— Cleve Jones

The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass,…

— Tupac Shakur

The religious habits of the Americans form not only the basis of their private and public morals, but have become so thoroughly…

— Francis Grund

Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary…

— Thomas Pogge

I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States…

— Charles Lichenstein

If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by…

— Russell Simmons

Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether…

— James G. Blaine

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief…

— Mario Cuomo

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

The first thing I plan to do is what I did while serving in Arizona’s legislature — and that was to seek…

— Kyrsten Sinema

“In three years of backbreaking studies that, according to Madison , "exacted perhaps the most severe of Jefferson's public labors," Jefferson had…

— Willard Sterne Randall

[Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the…

— Joseph Chamberlain

In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington,…

— Jacob Weisberg

There you go again. When I opposed Medicare, there was another piece of legislation meeting the same problem before the Congress. I…

— Ronald Reagan

There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.

— Mitt Romney

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

— Elliott Abrams

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

— Jon Meacham

I do understand that, having been a minister, there is difficulty putting stuff into legislation which is being negotiated. I quite understand.

— Nicky Morgan

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

— Daniel Radcliffe

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

— Anonymous

I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation.

— Shap Smith

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

— Caitlin Moran

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control]…

— Marion Barry

We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human…

— Blase J. Cupich

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation…

— Alan Greenspan

I'm a Muslim. I'm somebody who's proud of my faith... But what I don't do is, I don't use my faith as…

— Humza Yousaf

The Constitution of the United States... specifically states the Congress shall write legislation for immigration policy in the United States.

— John Carter

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

— Isabel Paterson

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

— Thomas Jefferson