In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
To strengthen the grassroots at the party - at the party unit, at the county level, at the precinct level, and then… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
There isn't a Democrat in politics alive who does not know what the Obama presidency has meant for the Democrat Party around… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one End to the other. The Essence of the whole will… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Minnesota is very important. You're going to have a competitive race for the Senate, a competitive governor's race, you have an open… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation… — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
Police officers today are a protected class, one no politician wants to oppose. Law enforcement interests may occasionally come up short on… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
Utah is close to becoming the latest state to legalize medical marijuana.But one DEA agent raised the alarm in front of the… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I remember being in the Ontario Legislature and the Liberals yelling over at me about the fact that the dollar was rising,… — Jim Flaherty Copy Share Image
We have to stand up for these issues when it's tough, and that's what I've done. I did it when I was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous,… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image