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Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

— Lou Barletta

If you don't like something, if you don't like the laws that we have to live by, you gotta get out and vote.

— Dawn Staley

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

— Plato

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do…

— Major Owens

We simply believe that everyone who lives in our state needs to abide by our laws.

— Sonny Perdue

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

— Albert Einstein

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

— Elton Gallegly

If there's anything you absolutely hate, why, it must be unconstitutional. Or, if there's anything you absolutely have to have, it must be required…

— Antonin Scalia

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex…

— Susan B. Anthony

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired…

— Sheldon Richman

I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the…

— Thomas Jefferson