Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
I don't view myself as a victim of gun violence. I view myself as a victim of a maniac who happened to… — Suzanna Hupp Copy Share Image
Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
We need to put limits on how much an individual, group or business can spend on influencing an individual legislator or a… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness,… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a young social worker, the first time I went to the state capital in Arizona, where I… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
It's important for us to vote in mid-term off year elections in the times where state legislators and mayors offices are being… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is,… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and… — Nancy Kassebaum Copy Share Image
The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
“the limits amplified the corrosive effects of ambition on the legislators, who focused from day one on how best to use their… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image