Evidence Quote by Kris Kobach

When legislators do something that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, there's always the suspicion that they're in somebody's pocket.

— Homer Hickam

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

— Smriti Irani

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot…

— Ben Okri

Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is when senators…

— Claire McCaskill

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

— William O. Douglas

The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.

— Ayelet Shaked

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

— Nancy Pelosi

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.

— Neal Boortz

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

— John Cornyn

I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of…

— James Madison

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

— Mark B. Cohen