Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even… — Liz Cheney Copy Share Image
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
When legislators do something that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, there's always the suspicion that they're in somebody's pocket. — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
We had a lot of people say, you guys are the most ineffective legislators in Olympia and your bills never go anywhere… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
People have a deep need to be legislators, and the idea of autonomy has become very precious. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
ALEC, has been I think a wonderful organization. Not only does it bring like-minded legislators together. But the private sector engagement in… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Legislators redistrict all the time to achieve desired results. They group people together based on how they think they will vote. There… — Andrew P. Napolitano Copy Share Image
The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther.… — William Paterson Copy Share Image
There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a Chinese American legislator, I applaud the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project. Engaging Asian American and Pacific Islander communities about Republican… — Kimberly Yee Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents. — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social… — Edith Rogers Copy Share Image
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators. — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader… — John Hutton Copy Share Image
In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
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