Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience. — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman… — Irene Parlby 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
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
“... a good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I applaud Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison and the legislators in the Nevada State Senate who have introduced SB 26 to fight the… — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education. — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators]… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our legislators have become a set of "whores" open to the highest bidders. The problem is that if we try to limit… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as… — Jim Walsh Copy Share Image
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our… — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator. — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
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