Legislation Quotes · Page 5

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

— Alice Hamilton

Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.

— Smriti Irani

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

— Ted Cruz

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

The beauty for Trump is that [Paul] Ryan et. al have worked on all this legislation and he is going to be…

— Mary Matalin

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

— Jamie Dimon

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

— Charles Koch

I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.

— Rand Paul

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the…

— Jimmy Carter

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential…

— John Conyers

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and…

— David Duke

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social…

— James Madison

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation… What I want to do is to get through that, and…

— William Howard Taft

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury…

— Andrew Johnson

The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve…

— Calvin Coolidge

The corporate sector per se is bottom-line oriented. It can be very corrupt and it is not very principled. That is why…

— Mary Robinson

It is well known that homosexuality is a criminal offense in the United States, in four US states. If it is good…

— Vladimir Putin

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

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

Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for…

— David Duke

I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They…

— David Simon

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five…

— Ronald Reagan

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

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

— William Howard Taft

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

— Mike Pence

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

— Otto von Bismarck

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing…

— Anonymous

Today's public opinion, though it may appear as light as air, may be tomorrow's legislation-for better or for worse.

— William Gilmore Simms

I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship.

— Hillary Clinton

No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.

— Charles Kennedy

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

— Louis D. Brandeis

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than…

— Henry Rollins

I'm tired of just introducing legislation that's just not going to change our lives. It's going beyond that.

— Rashida Tlaib

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

— Bobby Seale

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

— Jim McGovern

My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done.

— Barack Obama

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.

— Rand Paul