There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church? — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and… — John Battelle 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
Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by… — James L. Buckley 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
But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to… — Craig Benson Copy Share Image
Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime;… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State...… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers;… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said… — John Joseph Griffin 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
Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a Chinese American legislator, I applaud the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project. Engaging Asian American and Pacific Islander communities about Republican… — Kimberly Yee Copy Share Image
The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators. — Rob Woodall Copy Share Image
The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther.… — William Paterson Copy Share Image
If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not… — Frank Chodorov 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
“... a good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image