Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest. — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly, — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
My legislators devote most of their time to attend to people's problems. I want the people to devote more time and contribute… — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician. — Dan Maffei Copy Share Image
Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State...… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps.… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to… — Craig Benson Copy Share Image
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime;… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers;… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of… — John A. Stormer Copy Share Image
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church? — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence. — Marc Rotenberg Copy Share Image
The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators. — Rob Woodall Copy Share Image
It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image