Legislators Quotes

Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.

— John Paul Stevens

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change

— William S. Burroughs

I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly,

— Sharron Angle

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

— Walter E. Williams

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

— Simon Bolivar

Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.

— Doug Bandow

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

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our…

— Gwen Moore

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law…

— Gregory Bateson

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

— Eleanor Smeal

It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers…

— Ted Cruz

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

— Denis Diderot

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are…

— Mark Shields

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can…

— Karen DeCrow

I don't view myself as a victim of gun violence. I view myself as a victim of a maniac who happened to…

— Suzanna Hupp

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying…

— John Rawls

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only…

— Benigno Aquino III

The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or…

— Aristotle

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support…

— Anthony Lewis

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

Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every…

— Doris Day

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

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as…

— Bergen Evans

The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who…

— Pope John Paul II

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

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their…

— John Adams

Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of…

— Aristotle

The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators.

— Rob Woodall

Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?

— Harry Belafonte

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

— John Rawls

Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.

— Marc Rotenberg

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

— John Warren Kindt

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

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

— Nigel Farage

I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as…

— Jim Walsh