I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
If I were president, I would want to spend a lot of time going to the legislatures and telling them about best… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality… — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one End to the other. The Essence of the whole will… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have to stand up for these issues when it's tough, and that's what I've done. I did it when I was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one… — Justin Amash Copy Share Image
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How do you react when your own government lies to you systematically about life-and-death questions? As I have noted earlier, the answer… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
