When we do our legislation, we're not trying to figure out, 'How can I use this to run against you?' We say,… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are… — Colleen Hanabusa Copy Share Image
Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still… — Deborah Meier Copy Share Image
The first thing I plan to do is what I did while serving in Arizona’s legislature — and that was to seek… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
“In three years of backbreaking studies that, according to Madison , "exacted perhaps the most severe of Jefferson's public labors," Jefferson had… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share Image
Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether… — James G. Blaine Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part… — Adam Selzer Copy Share Image
It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we… — Joel Salatin 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
We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after… — David Copy Share Image
I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)...… — John Chafee Copy Share Image
McCarthy had ten years in the House of Representatives, only two terms as a senator. What did he pass? Are there any… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and… — Sue Kelly Copy Share Image
Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world… — Virginia Foxx 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
My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because… — George Will Copy Share Image
Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The American people want to raise the minimum wage. Every poll tells us that. That bill will not get to the floor… — Bernie Sanders 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
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
This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer. Fear mongering and misinformation is… — Russell Pearce Copy Share Image
The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate… — Abraham Foxman Copy Share Image
