Legislature Quotes · Page 2

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

— Marco Rubio

Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature.

— Yemi Osinbajo

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than…

— Anonymous

I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

— Marco Rubio

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

— Hank Johnson

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

The Constitution is clear; appropriations powers sit with the legislature.

— Dean Phillips

Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

— Henry David Thoreau

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in…

— Bill Scott

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as…

— James McGreevey

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

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature…

— Max Baucus

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and…

— Henry Parry Liddon

The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local…

— James Madison

Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has…

— Mike Huckabee

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales…

— John Warren Kindt

“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

I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no…

— Ezra Taft Benson

All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people.…

— Molly Ivins

The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their…

— James Madison

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the…

— Meg Whitman

This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work.…

— Chris Larson

The Supreme Court, or any court, when they make a decision, if that's a published decision, it becomes virtually like a statute.…

— George Deukmejian

The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic…

— William O. Douglas

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

— James Madison

Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

— Gaston Caperton

The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.

— Judy Martz

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and…

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

I have confidence in the responsibility of those who occupy a seat in the legislature.

— Michel Temer

Democrats, folks, only have five states where they have the governorship and the state legislature.

— Rush Limbaugh

Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India's legislature is being destroyed.

— Arun Jaitley

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

— Abraham Lincoln

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

— George Washington

I served 14 years in the state legislature and served in both the minority and majority.

— Lois Frankel

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

— Tom Hayden

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

— James Madison

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

— Kathy Szeliga

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

— Jane D. Hull

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

— Robert Green Ingersoll