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 Copy Share Image
I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is… — Jodi Rell Copy Share Image
The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
“on every occasion as at first, when their number was small, their habitations near, and the public concerns few and trifling. This… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than… — John Locke Copy Share Image
In my four years as a state legislator, I went to dozens of nontraditional events - everything from bird watchings to tree… — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny.… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You want to be able to get your budget through, you want to be able to get your legislative agenda through, you… — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use… — John Engler Copy Share Image
I've loved being in legislative office on a state level, and I think on a federal level there are so many more… — Grace Meng Copy Share Image
Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Social media is such a key organizing and communication tool, and I've made a major commitment to use it as a way… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
A man is merely to implement the law. He is there not to decide what to implement as we already have the… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible… — John Bright Copy Share Image
We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in… — Brian Schweitzer Copy Share Image
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for… — Dan Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
In the legislative branch, you make the laws... and our role as judges is to interpret the law, not to inject our… — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging… — John Ibbitson Copy Share Image
We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
A World Parliamentary Assembly functioning outside the United Nations, or a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly set up as a subsidiary body of… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
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