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
It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules… — John Marshall 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
... 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
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue… — Benjamin Rush 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
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
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
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 this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I think he should let me run Ohio. He should let us, the legislature, the members there, we should be running Ohio.… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
It was interesting, when the Affordable Care Act passed, Arizona did it immediately, even though they had two Republican senators, a Republican… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is… — Collin Peterson 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
The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and… — James Madison 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
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
The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we have to decide, with the Legislature: Are we willing to take some bold steps to make us even more competitive… — Dave Heineman Copy Share Image
Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence,… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be… — Joseph Smith, Jr 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 hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all…” quote by Nick Hanauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/72c/nick-hanauer-25978_action_fast-food-workers-are-all-the-governor-h_976046.jpg)
![“If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/191/thomas-jefferson-43_add_if-our-legislature-does-not-heartily-pus_1816270.jpg)
![“We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/61c/barack-obama-17_advantage_we-were-just-at-the-beginnings-of-a-reco_922833.jpg)
![“[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776.” quote by Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/02e/gordon-s-wood-13199_constitution_john-adams-writings-had-indicted-the-uni_2937112.jpg)
