As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and… — Ben Chandler Copy Share Image
The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about… — Michael Schiavo Copy Share Image
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations,… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in… — Ralph Regula Copy Share Image
Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard.… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I'm going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that's not enough. I'm going to try to help move… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right… — Ralph Norman Copy Share Image
Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
So many state Republican governors and legislators are defunding Planned Parenthood and shutting down clinics that not only provide a safe abortion… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, concealing things which they desire to know; and nothing so much increases curiosity as… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
Here's the problem - carbon dioxide doesn't contribute to smog and isn't a health threat. All of this is being done because… — Kenneth P. Green Copy Share Image
The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities. — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Only when legislators judge that the risk of continuing to support Trump outweighs the risk of abandoning him will they begin to… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“Do not the legislators and their agents form a part of the human race? Do they consider that they are composed of… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator,… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
A commission presenting evidence doesn't do a Jedi mind trick and make state legislators in some state suddenly pass a bill. — Kris Kobach Copy Share Image
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch,… — Erick Erickson Copy Share Image
Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators… — Whiting Williams Copy Share Image
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“One legislator accused me of having a 19th-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
