Careers Quote by Bill Dedman

Our legislatures are not built to allow working people to participate as members. Neither, for that matter, is our political system writ large.

— Jamelle Bouie

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

— Rufus King

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation…

— Margrethe Vestager

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

— Rick Perry

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

— Earl Warren

The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is…

— Molly Ivins

It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can…

— Learned Hand

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to…

— Martin Van Buren

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

— Emma Goldman

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

— Kathy Szeliga

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization,…

— Jack Abramoff

For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is…

— Thomas Jefferson