Legislation Quotes · Page 6

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

— Max Baucus

As a rule of thumb, Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

— Thomas Sowell

“I can't go back and change the already done actions but what i can do is to create a new legislation”

— Ahmed Gamal Abdel Gawad

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

— Michelle Malkin

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

— Ben Shapiro

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

— Rufus King

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

— George Will

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

— Anonymous

Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax…

— Bob Beauprez

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly…

— Terry Eagleton

I think we have muddled the terms of marriage, civil partnership, registry office, church etc. I would have liked that to have…

— Andrea Leadsom

It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a…

— Learned Hand

Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in…

— Mark Mason

While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of…

— John F. Kennedy

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent…

— Randy Neugebauer

Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United…

— Thomas Schelling

The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not…

— Francis George

Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs,…

— Roy Blunt

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their…

— Robert B. Laughlin

When the legislation that passed in the farm bill that says that it’s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to…

— Steve King

I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now…

— Carl Levin

But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to…

— Barack Obama

Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself…

— Fran Lebowitz

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and…

— Frank Lautenberg

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

— Taki Theodoracopulos

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

— Anonymous

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by…

— Thomas Reed

“nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.”

— J.S.B. Morse

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

— Pedro Pierluisi

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

— James F. Cooper

The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

— Anonymous

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

— Thomas Jefferson

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and…

— Henry Ford

We MPs may not have a job description, but I'm pretty certain one of our responsibilities is to scrutinise and approve domestic…

— Heidi Allen

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

— John Sweeney

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole…

— Anonymous

I'm a Muslim. I'm somebody who's proud of my faith... But what I don't do is, I don't use my faith as…

— Humza Yousaf