Legislation Quotes · Page 3

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

— Ed Pastor

Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side…

— Mitt Romney

Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.

— Thomas Sowell

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

— Dick Cavett

Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.

— Dominic Grieve

We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee,…

— Claire McCaskill

Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

— Arun Jaitley

Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to…

— Anonymous

I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed…

— John McCain

The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families…

— Christina Romer

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer,…

— Roy Barnes

In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to…

— Louis J. Freeh

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human…

— John Quincy Adams

I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term…

— Rand Paul

Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still…

— Deborah Meier

More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of…

— Ronald Reagan

The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and…

— Ronald Reagan

We want this - and I - we hope that right when they come back, that the Congress passes the Lilly Ledbetter…

— Eleanor Smeal

When I talk to different lawmakers, I'm trying to get them to reach across the aisle. There's legislation out there that would…

— Patricia Arquette

There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people…

— Duncan Green

One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at…

— Emanuel Cleaver

I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'

— Gough Whitlam

There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.

— Mitt Romney

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

— Thomas Jefferson

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

— Andrew Cuomo

I told him last Monday that I felt the way things were going it was unlikely that I would be able to…

— Lucinda Creighton

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

— Larry Elder

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they…

— Hillary Clinton

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

— Tom Udall

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation...

— Thomas Sowell

Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.

— Diane Paulus

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

— Milton Friedman

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

— Stephen Harper

The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.

— M. R. DeHaan

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it…

— Bernie Sanders

National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents,

— Barack Obama