Legislation Quotes · Page 5

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control]…

— Marion Barry

We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human…

— Blase J. Cupich

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

I'm a Muslim. I'm somebody who's proud of my faith... But what I don't do is, I don't use my faith as…

— Humza Yousaf

I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation.

— Shap Smith

I do understand that, having been a minister, there is difficulty putting stuff into legislation which is being negotiated. I quite understand.

— Nicky Morgan

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

— Daniel Radcliffe

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree…

— James Madison

It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public…

— Jerrold Nadler

Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine…

— Keith O'Brien

The more I hear of ban-the-gun legislation forming in Washington, and the more I hear it advocated from the editorial pulpit of…

— Patrick Bedard

Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory…

— Robert E. Ornstein

Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences between party…

— Charles Krauthammer

Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss…

— Gloria Reuben

I don't think that the problems or the issues relate to any single piece of legislation. I think that they really do…

— Ted Gup

After you are diagnosed with a condition that is reasonably likely to lead to intolerable suffering and eventually cause loss of competence.…

— Kelvin Ogilvie

The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in…

— Paul Craig Roberts

If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of…

— Orrin Hatch

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are…

— Immanuel Kant

It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a…

— Stephen Colbert

Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration…

— Aviva Chomsky

The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution,…

— A. V. Dicey

The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege…

— Spencer W. Kimball

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

— Anonymous

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

— Caitlin Moran

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

— Elliott Abrams

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

— Ben Shapiro

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

— Taki Theodoracopulos

We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and…

— Frank Lautenberg

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

— Anonymous

“I can't go back and change the already done actions but what i can do is to create a new legislation”

— Ahmed Gamal Abdel Gawad

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

— Michelle Malkin

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole…

— Anonymous

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

— James F. Cooper

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

— John Sweeney

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and…

— Henry Ford

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

— Pedro Pierluisi

“True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.”

— J.S.B. Morse