Body Quote by Felix Frankfurter

It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make…

— Fred Rodell

If becoming a member of Congress is like going to college, then crafting legislation is our homework.

— Jared Polis

Congress is where Americans are supposed to have our big, messy political fights. That's because the people who make the laws need to be…

— Ben Sasse

The House of Representatives provides a special, nonpartisan staff of lawyers, called Legislative Counsel, who are experts in various areas of the law.

— Jared Polis

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

— Ambrose Bierce

Congress is the world's oldest deliberative body in the world's oldest democracy. The result of that democracy, and the Constitution on which it rests,…

— Mark Meadows

During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes.…

— John Paul Stevens

More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms…

— Antonin Scalia

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of…

— Walter E. Williams

“Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is…

— Earl Warren

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

— James A. Garfield

Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the…

— Antonin Scalia