Legislature Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Legislature Revival State legislatures States
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature. — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image
You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're… — Dirk Kempthorne Copy Share Image
this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We've got to replace the statues of Jefferson Davis and JZ George in the U.S. Capitol, and the people of Mississippi ought to have… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to… — Jodi Rell Copy Share Image
I've loved being in legislative office on a state level, and I think on a federal level there are so many more opportunities. I'm… — Grace Meng Copy Share Image
I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people. — Jim Moran Copy Share Image
My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
Four states where [Democrats] have the governorship and both houses of the legislature. That's it. They have lost seats. They are not gonna win… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
When I was elected governor of my state, I had a legislature 87 percent Democrat. It was not lost on me that to get… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and religion... I… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way,… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12, '14, it's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
![“Four states where [Democrats] have the governorship and both houses of the legislature. That's it. They have lost seats. They are not gonna win the House and Senate back any time soon. They don't have a prayer. Even if the Republicans implode, the numbers just work against them. They got too many…” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bf9/rush-limbaugh-28_democracy_four-states-where-democrats-have-the-gov_21285.jpg)
