I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator. — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset. — Sandy Adams Copy Share Image
He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country's welfare, lest it should perish by… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician. — Dan Maffei Copy Share Image
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience. — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward… — Hakeem Jeffries Copy Share Image
The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
I think that we're just fortunate that you have an experienced legislator: 26 years of fighting for our issues in line. I… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the… — Henry Cuellar Copy Share Image
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
As a pro-life legislator, I supported the effort in the Louisiana House of Representatives to improve access to quality health care for… — John Bel Edwards Copy Share Image
My concept of hitting the ground running and being an effective legislator is to focus on my district and having really good… — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf… — Kate Brown Copy Share Image
“If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
I've never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average person is thinking more about… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness,… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I'm not a legislator. I've never been a lobbyist. I've never worked a session before, but based on my conversations with leadership… — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people,… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree… — James Madison Copy Share Image
