ALEC has forged a unique partnership between state legislators and leaders from the corporate and business community. This partnership offers businessmen the… — Ronald Reagan 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
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
Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for… — Elliott Abrams 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 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
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
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
Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the… — Eleanor Smeal 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
The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the… — John Beddington Copy Share Image
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women)… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest. — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence. — Marc Rotenberg Copy Share Image
My legislators devote most of their time to attend to people's problems. I want the people to devote more time and contribute… — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I applaud Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison and the legislators in the Nevada State Senate who have introduced SB 26 to fight the… — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
Our legislators have become a set of "whores" open to the highest bidders. The problem is that if we try to limit… — Philip Kotler 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
I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as… — Jim Walsh Copy Share Image
Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps.… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of… — John A. Stormer Copy Share Image
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators]… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
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