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
Only when legislators judge that the risk of continuing to support Trump outweighs the risk of abandoning him will they begin to… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
A commission presenting evidence doesn't do a Jedi mind trick and make state legislators in some state suddenly pass a bill. — Kris Kobach Copy Share Image
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
“Do not the legislators and their agents form a part of the human race? Do they consider that they are composed of… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator,… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right… — Ralph Norman Copy Share Image
Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I'm going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that's not enough. I'm going to try to help move… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not… — Plutarch 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
That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said… — John Joseph Griffin 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 form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate… — Henry David Thoreau 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
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations,… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive… — Letitia James 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
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
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
But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social… — Edith Rogers Copy Share Image
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
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
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents. — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators. — Gray Davis 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
And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader… — John Hutton Copy Share Image
In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about… — Michael Schiavo Copy Share Image
