Legislation Quotes · Page 4

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

— William Howard Taft

The U.K. has some of the toughest legislation on hate crime in the world, and it is there to keep us all…

— Sadiq Khan

Donald Trump and I would never support legislation that punished women who made the heart-breaking choice to end a pregnancy.

— Mike Pence

Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.

— Jose Ferreira

At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive.

— Richard Allen Epstein

I have voted on the merits of legislation, voting both 'with' and 'against' my party.

— Abigail Spanberger

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

— Mike Quigley

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary…

— Julius Wellhausen

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is…

— Abraham Verghese

The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled…

— Thomas Sowell

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom…

— Lysander Spooner

I will work with Congress to introduce a series of legislative reforms and will fight for their passage in the first 100…

— Donald Trump

I would say that folks who have looked at this issue for a long time, whether it's Elizabeth Warren or many other…

— Hillary Clinton

Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy...Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of…

— Theodore M. Burton

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress;…

— John W. Snow

“A legislation under the name of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2012, was introduced in Parliament.…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy…

— James Callaghan

Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy…

— Margaret Thatcher

I had the privilege and the honor of chairing the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. And it is interesting to me, you…

— Bernie Sanders

Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline…

— Eleanor Smeal

It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating…

— John A. Macdonald

We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the…

— Jesse Helms

With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current…

— Aberjhani

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good…

— Denis Diderot

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

— Warren Farrell

“I understand all too well that you can make legislation but you can't legislate how people feel toward one another.”

— Jerry West

Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.

— John D. Rockefeller

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in…

— Jerry Brown

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

— Ellen MacArthur

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.

— Bernard Goldberg

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

— Caitlin Moran

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

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

— Nicky Morgan

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

— Anonymous

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

— Jon Meacham

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

— Shap Smith

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

— Elliott Abrams

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

— Thomas Jefferson