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Legislators Quotes by Bill Dedman
- In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
- Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.
- In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
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- This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by… — James L. Buckley
- When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will… — Edmund Burke
- Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. — William S. Burroughs
- Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every… — Doris Day
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce… — Thomas Jefferson
- And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they… — Frederic Bastiat
- Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a… — Ayn Rand
- The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on… — Thomas Jefferson
- There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith. — Lawrence M. Krauss
- Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women)… — Katha Pollitt
- The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the… — John Beddington
- The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who… — Pope John Paul II