Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The trouble with this country,” he said, “is that the women have no guts.They’d rather slink off and have a dangerous, illegal… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I think that we're just fortunate that you have an experienced legislator: 26 years of fighting for our issues in line. I… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
ALEC has forged a unique partnership between state legislators and leaders from the corporate and business community. This partnership offers businessmen the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what gives me hope. After the struggle for marriage equality, the LGBTQ community has built some very powerful organizations;… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
[T]here's a good reason to stay pessimistic about deficits as far as the eye can see. It's called the 'news' media. Legislators… — L. Brent Bozell, Jr Copy Share Image
“My state’s constitution seems to contain a provision requiring that once every two years we must pass a bill which dazzles the… — Andrew Heaton Copy Share Image
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing… — John Sarbanes Copy Share Image
The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
Our nation, which possesses greater resources than any other, is rent, from center to circumference, with party strife, political intrigues, and sectional… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the genuine relationships and friendships that some of us have developed across the aisle in recent years does not translate into… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women)… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
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