Legislature Quote by John Bercow Download Open image “A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.” — John Bercow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Legislature Scorn Suffering
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. — John Locke Copy Share Image
I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework. — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers. — John Bercow Copy Share Image
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures. — John Bercow Copy Share Image
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs. — John Bercow Copy Share Image
I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment. — John Bercow 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
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