It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Minnesota is very important. You're going to have a competitive race for the Senate, a competitive governor's race, you have an open… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course,… — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in… — Sam Farr Copy Share Image
Politics is all about getting and keeping power, and in politics, the professionals in the business soon learn that the only way… — Ray Haynes Copy Share Image
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual,… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime,… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
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