Conditions Quote by John Dewey

Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.

— Smriti Irani

We should interact with legal reform tactically, knowing that it will not meet our ultimate goals but asking whether there are ways that engaging…

— Dean Spade

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

— Chuck Grassley

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

— Marco Rubio

“Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as a sovereign…

— Calvin Coolidge

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.

— Tim Kaine

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it…

— Matt Taibbi

In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures.

— Narendra Modi

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a…

— Bashar al-Assad

As a political tool, the laws are like two-edged knives. Draconian laws can cause untold sufferings to the people. Loosely worded laws framed without…

— T Joseph Benziger

There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve…

— Martin Luther King, Jr