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Politics is all about getting and keeping power, and in politics, the professionals in the business soon learn that the only way to get and… — Unknown Author
The first thing I plan to do is what I did while serving in Arizona’s legislature — and that was to seek out members that… — Kyrsten Sinema
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds… — Rutherford B. Hayes
I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature. — Samuel Chase
What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this,… — Christopher Peterson
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the… — Martin Van Buren
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. — Ezra Stiles
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode… — George Minot
The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is. — Judy Martz
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least… — Ogden Nash
Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures… — Unknown Author
There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in… — Marilyn Ferguson
No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these… — Carl Hiaasen
Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect… — Herbert Spencer
Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this… — John Dickinson
The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful tender...… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
What you are about to hear is God's word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have… — Bill McCartney
Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should… — Don Kates
Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no… — Peter McWilliams
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice. — Abraham Lincoln
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the… — Thomas Jefferson
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I… — Janet Reno
It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in… — Thomas Jefferson
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in… — Harry Shearer

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