Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle. — Grace Meng Copy Share Image
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip. — Marc Veasey Copy Share Image
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress. — Ann Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I won't put my party ahead of my constituents or what I believe in, and I've proven that over and over again… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and… — Robert Simonds Copy Share Image
No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper,… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the… — James Madison 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
We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If I had the choice now, I'd make New Jersey a state where you can have a shall issue on conceal and… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
One of the biggest responsibilities the legislature holds every year is allocating our taxpayers' hard-earned money responsibly and efficiently. — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
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