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
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
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
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
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing… — John Sarbanes Copy Share Image
I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church? — Harry Belafonte 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 great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and… — David Hume 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
Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard.… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators. — Gray Davis 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
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We need to put limits on how much an individual, group or business can spend on influencing an individual legislator or a… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in… — Ralph Regula 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 has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
