Legislators Quotes
118 quotes by 98 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
— Barney Frank
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
— Ralph Nader
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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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
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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
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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
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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
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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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