“I understand all too well that you can make legislation but you can't legislate how people feel toward one another.” — Jerry West Copy Share Image
The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior. — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
I have voted on the merits of legislation, voting both 'with' and 'against' my party. — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't support any gun-control legislation - the effort for a new assault-weapons ban, with a ban on semiautomatic weapons, is something… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The more I hear of ban-the-gun legislation forming in Washington, and the more I hear it advocated from the editorial pulpit of… — Patrick Bedard Copy Share Image
Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory… — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public… — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It ends a 40-year ban on exporting U.S. oil. It's changed - it's included in its cyber-security legislation - that says to… — Susan Davis Copy Share Image
Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
There is no time and space limitation for public accountability on the Internet. Creative commonality is standard and does not resemble the… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining… — John Shattuck Copy Share Image
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political… — Carl Menger Copy Share Image
If you have laws and legislation that ban certain things based on the principles of the Scriptures and based on your Christian… — Bishop Noel Jones Copy Share Image
A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich. — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation. — Ellen MacArthur Copy Share Image
Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. — Jim McGovern Copy Share Image
I'm tired of just introducing legislation that's just not going to change our lives. It's going beyond that. — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation. — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
As a rule of thumb, Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Donald Trump and I would never support legislation that punished women who made the heart-breaking choice to end a pregnancy. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The U.K. has some of the toughest legislation on hate crime in the world, and it is there to keep us all… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
