Legislative Quotes

The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.

— Om Malik

The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.

— Pavel Durov

What has Dianne Feinstein done... I'll put my legislative background up against hers any day.

— Elizabeth Emken

I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.

— Carrie Lam

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

— Thomas Jefferson

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

— James Madison

The separation of powers is about legislative powers. It isn't about discussion or words.

— Rand Paul

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

— Alexander Hamilton

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic…

— Luis Gutierrez

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

— James Madison

The art of negotiating is a learned skill. It is practiced and often honed in the marketplace as well as legislative bodies.

— Margaret Hoover

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch,…

— Christopher Hitchens

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the…

— John Witherspoon

What will happen is the bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them - we'll probably…

— Mitch McConnell

If we can't get where we need to go to protect people through our regulatory channels, through our legislative process, then unfortunately…

— Robert Bilott

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

I think there's a short-term legislative strategy. I think there's a longer-term legislative strategy in terms of enshrining net neutrality principles into…

— Brian Schatz

I am specifically concerned about the idea that the legislative process is one that gets characterized the way it is as the…

— Lloyd Blankfein

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut…

— Mitch McConnell

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan…

— George Washington

Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn't have to…

— Molly Ivins

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix…

— Randy Neugebauer

If politics mean…the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and…

— Irene Parlby

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in…

— Martin Van Buren

Listening to the people I serve is a critical component of any legislative effort.

— Abigail Spanberger

Americans firmly rejected Republican legislative efforts to repeal the ACA - only 17 percent supported it.

— Jan Schakowsky

It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.

— Todd Young

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

— George W. Bush

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

— Anonymous

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

— James Buchanan

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.

— Carl Menger

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.

— John Engler

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.

— John Roberts

In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which…

— Alexander Hamilton

We've always said a filibuster is not appropriate for judicial nominees. A filibuster is a legislative tool designed to extract compromises. A…

— Wendy Long

I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch…

— George Allen

There's a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.

— Mike Lee

In Barack Obama's second term, with his legislative agenda dead in a Republican-controlled Congress, the president turned to executive unilateralism on an…

— Ross Douthat