I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations. — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Constitution is clear; appropriations powers sit with the legislature. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress. — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature. — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than… — Anonymous 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
Although I entertain great respect and regard for the female sex I consider the qualifications of the ladies to be already sufficiently… — James Francis 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
Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales… — John Warren Kindt 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
“Public opinion! what class of men have an immense preponderance over the rest of the community, in their power of representing public… — Charles Dickens 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
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 Copy Share Image
The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people.… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“ 1. Society needs laws. While anarchy can often turn a humdrum weekend into something unforgettable, eventually the mob must be kept… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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