It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. — James Madison Copy Share Image
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature. — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures. — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act. — George Pataki Copy Share Image
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against… — Leonard Lance Copy Share Image
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
I consider the difference between a system founded on the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal,… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in… — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
The first thing I plan to do is what I did while serving in Arizona’s legislature — and that was to seek… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising… — James Madison Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The other members of the legal fraternity especially the court officers/lawyers should be encouraged to aid in interpretation of statutes by handing… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“ 1. Society needs laws. While anarchy can often turn a humdrum weekend into something unforgettable, eventually the mob must be kept… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
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