Legislation Quotes · Page 2

In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

— Joseph Gurney Cannon

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

— William O. Douglas

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

— Voltaire

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

— Major Owens

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

— Kinky Friedman

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

— Joseph Gurney Cannon

We have the tendency of over-legislation regarding women.

— Asma Jahangir

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Diane Paulus

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

— Abraham Lincoln

Obamacare is bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor, and that's what Americans most dislike about this legislation.

— Jim Jordan

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

— George Meany

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

— Myrtle Reed

There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these…

— Rob Woodall

The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense.

— Dana Gould

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

— Ambrose Bierce

Carolyn Maloney knows how to get something done, and as I said, it doesn't matter if she's in the majority or the…

— Eleanor Smeal

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals…

— Mike Pence

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made…

— Noam Chomsky

People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land.…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really…

— Moby

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and…

— Aleister Crowley

There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some…

— Josh Earnest

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the…

— Friedrich Naumann

When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make…

— Hillary Clinton

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength…

— Will Durant

I really do believe that in order to overcome our environmental shortcomings, we have to act united as a people, and that…

— Adrian Grenier

What I've started to realize is that social media is not just technology - it's become its own entity, full of energy…

— Ian Somerhalder

I don't think that I need to tell you how important to the outcome of that race is the education legislation that…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If you have laws and legislation that ban certain things based on the principles of the Scriptures and based on your Christian…

— Bishop Noel Jones

Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he…

— Robert O. Paxton

“In 1996 Dorothy Mackey wrote an Op-ed piece, “Violence from comrades a fact of life for military women.” ABC News 20/ 20…

— Diane Chamberlain

We can't abolish prejudice through laws.

— Belva Ann Lockwood

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

— Allen West

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

— William Howard Taft

The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation.

— John McCain

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

— Milton Friedman

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

— William O. Douglas

What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo