Democrats in state legislatures are at their lowest level since the 1920s. President Obama has a can't-miss strategy to save the party… — Craig Ferguson 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
The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That is, I think that what I do, that democracy in Venezuela hasn't really worked well since the [Ugo] Chávez era and… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
When I was elected governor of my state, I had a legislature 87 percent Democrat. It was not lost on me that… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real… — H. L. Richardson Copy Share Image
Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect… — James Madison 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
Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather… — Rick Perry 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if… — Ralph Nader 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
Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers… — James E. Rogers Copy Share Image
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons;… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
![“That is, I think that what I do, that democracy in Venezuela hasn't really worked well since the [Ugo] Chávez era and that it has gotten even worse since the last elections, in which the Maduro government lost control of the House, of the country's legislature.” quote by Marco Rubio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/767/marco-rubio-355_country_that-is-i-think-that-what-i-do-that-demo_399622.jpg)
![“[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal social orders and, equally important, an independent executive.” quote by Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e8f/gordon-s-wood-13199_convinced_john-adams-experience-with-the-french-ph_1365435.jpg)
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