Legislation Quotes

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

— Joseph Gurney Cannon

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

— Kinky Friedman

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

— Voltaire

In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

— Joseph Gurney Cannon

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

— Major Owens

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

— Michael Foot

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

— Henry Clay

Legislation is the art of compromise.

— Harry Reid

Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.

— Smriti Irani

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account

— Tony Abbott

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

— Alice Hamilton

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

— Thomas Francis Meagher

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

— Lawrence Lessig

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

— Lamar Alexander

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

— Carter Heyward

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

— Charles Koch

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that…

— Bernice Weissbourd

There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a…

— Jimmy Carter

It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every…

— Edward Snowden

This legislation provides Medicaid eligibility to evacuees and residents in (Federal Emergency Management Agency) designated disaster counties, .. It also helps pay…

— Thad Cochran

The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis.…

— Rexford Tugwell

Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize…

— Barack Obama

Here's a guy [Marco Rubio] - here's a guy that buys a house for $179,000, he sells it to a lobbyist who's…

— Donald Trump

Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was…

— Linda Colley

It ends a 40-year ban on exporting U.S. oil. It's changed - it's included in its cyber-security legislation - that says to…

— Susan Davis

Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to…

— Calvin Coolidge

There is no time and space limitation for public accountability on the Internet. Creative commonality is standard and does not resemble the…

— Eduardo Paes

I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to…

— Enoch Powell

In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington,…

— Jacob Weisberg

There you go again. When I opposed Medicare, there was another piece of legislation meeting the same problem before the Congress. I…

— Ronald Reagan

[Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the…

— Joseph Chamberlain

“He was to become the lawmaker for the poor and the downtrodden and the oppressed. He was to be the bearer of…

— Robert A. Caro

“Bill C-9 was supposed to be a budget bill, but it came with innumerable measures that had little or nothing to do…

— Lawrence Martin

“The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measures to be clasped within…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name…

— Chellie Pingree

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the…

— James Madison

“What then is the relation of law to morality? Law cannot prescribe morality, it can prescribe only external actions and therefore it…

— Anonymous

“In 1996 Dorothy Mackey wrote an Op-ed piece, “Violence from comrades a fact of life for military women.” ABC News 20/ 20…

— Diane Chamberlain

“FORGET FERES DOCTRINE And the military has immunity! Yes! The feres doctrine! It states “the Government is not liable under the Federal…

— Diane Chamberlain