I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done. — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly, — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
As a legislator, I was elected to make the tough decisions and produce solutions to the problems facing our country. — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I am committed to being a strong voice and legislator for Texas' ag community in Congress! — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes. — Justin Amash Copy Share Image
I'm a businessman. I'm a former legislator, and I'm an executive. And I've been very effective in each one of those positions. — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I want to dig in before I finish with a career here in Congress - be known as someone who was a… — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does.… — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
In Congress, there are some who are unashamed to aspire to eloquence, even to scholarship, but the only state legislator I ever… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
If anyone can pull off a long-shot win against Gov. Phil Murphy, it's Jack Ciattarelli, a former state legislator and small-business owner,… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher… — Joaquin Castro Copy Share Image
If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
“People won't change, nobody can reform them, and it's not worth the effort! Yes, that's right! It's the law of their being.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“When a legislator succeeds, after persevering efforts, in exercising an indirect influence upon the destiny of nations, his genius is lauded by… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“My little friend Grildrig; you have made a most admirable panegyrick upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“It is so true, that the Socialists look upon mankind as a subject for social experiments, that if, by chance, they are… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Well, I've been a legislator, and I'm the governor now. When you get in these positions, you've got to be held to… — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
As a California state legislator, I supported our cap-and-trade law to force polluters to pay for releasing harmful greenhouse gases to combat… — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image