Adults Quote by Ilana Mercer

“My little friend Grildrig; you have made a most admirable panegyrick upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are…

— Jonathan Swift

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation…

— Margrethe Vestager

No law is quite appropriate for all.

— Anonymous

If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to…

— Edward Kennedy

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge…

— James Madison

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

— Edward Gibbon

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has…

— Gregory Bateson

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

— George Washington

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

— Bob Woodward

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to…

— Frederic Bastiat

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most…

— H. L. Mencken

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

— John Bercow