I'm going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that's not enough. I'm going to try to help move… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a… — Ayn Rand 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
The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators. — Rob Woodall 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
Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not… — Eleanor Smeal 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
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. — Ralph Nader 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
“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
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
I don't view myself as a victim of gun violence. I view myself as a victim of a maniac who happened to… — Suzanna Hupp Copy Share Image
Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the… — William Blackstone 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
Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not… — Plutarch 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
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
