Legislature Quotes · Page 3

I think our message,the Clinton campaign was very strong. Remember, this is their fourth campaign in South Carolina. Two for Bill Clinton.…

— Bernie Sanders

My campaign filed the bill back in 2002 in the Democratic legislature, 85% Democratic, they could have prevented any possibility of a split vote.

— Jill Stein

The excuse of divided government is over: they have the House and the Senate as well; they have the state legislatures; they…

— Kellyanne Conway

...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various…

— Milton Friedman

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well…

— Christie Hefner

I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the…

— L. Neil Smith

The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and…

— James Madison

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

— James Madison

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands…

— Ludwig von Mises

I'm big on this 'no budget, no pay.' I think that's important. Let's get right at the heart of the issue. Even…

— Kurt Schrader

The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society,…

— Adam Smith

We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures.

— Steve Inskeep

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

— James Madison

When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the…

— George Allen

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

— James Madison

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

— Max Baucus

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut…

— Arne Duncan

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

— George W. Bush

Ultimately, we have to decide, with the Legislature: Are we willing to take some bold steps to make us even more competitive…

— Dave Heineman

Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.

— Warren Farrell

A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of…

— John Adams

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

I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain…

— Mike DeWine