I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote… — Alan K. Simpson 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
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
Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators… — Whiting Williams Copy Share Image
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly, — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman… — Irene Parlby Copy Share Image
There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence. — Marc Rotenberg Copy Share Image
I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities. — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or… — Adrienne Rich 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
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image