“... 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
The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are… — Mark Shields 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
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the… — Bill Dedman 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
I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest… — Frederic Bastiat 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
In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Here's the problem - carbon dioxide doesn't contribute to smog and isn't a health threat. All of this is being done because… — Kenneth P. Green Copy Share Image
Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what gives me hope. After the struggle for marriage equality, the LGBTQ community has built some very powerful organizations;… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a… — Pope John Paul II 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 time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our… — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support… — Anthony Lewis 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
The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers… — Ted Cruz 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
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators. — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. — P. J. O'Rourke 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
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
