Best Legislature Thoughts
206 Legislature quotes by 141 unique authors
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You…
— Jesse Jackson
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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden…
— Mother Jones
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
— Ed Koch
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Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy…
— Nick Lampson
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In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we…
— Susana Martinez
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But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too…
— James McGreevey
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
— George Jean Nathan
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I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can…
— Sarah Palin
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It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers,…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.
— George Pataki
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Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the…
— Rick Perry
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You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves…
— Rick Perry
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I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and…
— Bernie Sanders
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or…
— Walt Whitman
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The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend…
— John Adams
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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
— Mark Twain
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I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted…
— Jane Addams
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...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never…
— John Adams
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When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
— John Adams
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Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
— Diane Ravitch
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Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of…
— Howard Zinn
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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in -…
— Mark Twain
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The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and…
— Paul Wellstone
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