Legislation Quotes · Page 7

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Today's public opinion, though it may appear as light as air, may be tomorrow's legislation-for better or for worse.

— William Gilmore Simms

I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship.

— Hillary Clinton

No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.

— Charles Kennedy

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing…

— Anonymous

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

— Otto von Bismarck

“True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.”

— J.S.B. Morse

“nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by…

— J. Spencer Kinard

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives…

— Joe Biden

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he…

— Robert O. Paxton

To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a…

— Josiah Warren

It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I do go against my leadership all the time because I stand firm on the four questions that I ask about all…

— Paul Broun

I will continue to fight for legislation that forces Congress to read the bills! I will fight for a vote on my…

— Rand Paul

It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th…

— Barbara Tuchman

State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries,…

— John Marshall

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

— Pedro Pierluisi

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by…

— Thomas Reed

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

— Anonymous

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole…

— Anonymous

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

— Thomas Jefferson

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and…

— Henry Ford

We MPs may not have a job description, but I'm pretty certain one of our responsibilities is to scrutinise and approve domestic…

— Heidi Allen

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

— John Sweeney

The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

— Anonymous

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

— James F. Cooper

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

— Anonymous

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

— Taki Theodoracopulos

We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and…

— Frank Lautenberg

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

— Ben Shapiro

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

— Rufus King