Legislators Quotes

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The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections… — Thomas DiLorenzo
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of… — Josiah Warren
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of… — Josiah Warren
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher… — Derek Bok
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the… — Thomas Jefferson
Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has… — Gary Bauer
What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not… — Russ Feingold
Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the fact… — Bill Maher
Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their… — Samuel Johnson
Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because they have the… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral… — Henry David Thoreau
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. — Barney Frank
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. — Ralph Nader
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. — P.J. O'Rourke
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be… — Ben Okri
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become… — Rand Paul
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and… — John Sununu
The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the… — John Sununu
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their… — William Howard Taft

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