So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are… — Sharron Angle 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
That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration… — George Mason Copy Share Image
As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of… — Thomas Paine 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
I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a young social worker, the first time I went to the state capital in Arizona, where I… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the… — Noah Webster 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
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
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
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. — Barney Frank 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
The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is… — John Sununu 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
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
Our nation, which possesses greater resources than any other, is rent, from center to circumference, with party strife, political intrigues, and sectional… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch,… — Erick Erickson Copy Share Image
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
