Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and… — Justin Amash Copy Share Image
The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was… — Rand Paul 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
If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
What's really important to remember is that this type of legislation exists in one form or another in every other province in… — Rachel Notley Copy Share Image
The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
“And how about doing the job we hired you gentlemen and ladies for? Start doing it by reading the legislation you pass.… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent… — Robert Gibbs Copy Share Image
We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and… — James Madison 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
While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I am committed to introducing legislation that places the needs of working Americans first, and to giving our law enforcement officers the… — Madison Cawthorn 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
We've taken bold action at home by making historic investments in renewable energy, by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas,… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image