Legislators Quotes

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Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly… — Matt Taibbi
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the… — Frederic Bastiat
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter… — Bruce Sterling
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth. — Simone de Beauvoir
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War.… — George Packer
Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public serviceâ€”considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government… — Mark Levin
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by… — David Hume
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents. — Alan Siegel
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell… — Lysander Spooner
At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25… — John Sarbanes
Unfortunately, the genuine relationships and friendships that some of us have developed across the aisle in recent years does not translate into a willingness to… — Kyrsten Sinema
Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972… — Elliott Abrams
Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was… — Benigno Aquino III
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. — Robert Zoellick
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. — Bill Dedman
Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest. — Bill Dedman
In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians. — Bill Dedman
The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators. — Rob Woodall

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