Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel Copy Share Image
There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying… — Tom Udall Copy Share Image
Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue… — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our… — Hugh Downs Copy Share Image
President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I do understand that, having been a minister, there is difficulty putting stuff into legislation which is being negotiated. I quite understand. — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
After you are diagnosed with a condition that is reasonably likely to lead to intolerable suffering and eventually cause loss of competence.… — Kelvin Ogilvie Copy Share Image
I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives… — Joe Biden 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
