Challenges Quote by Letitia James

I'm going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that's not enough. I'm going to try to help move the Senate…

— Hillary Clinton

In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national…

— Chellie Pingree

Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the right to…

— Mark Skousen

Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious…

— David Blankenhorn

It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make…

— Fred Rodell

The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over…

— Thomas Jefferson

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the…

— Aristotle

I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against…

— Eleanor Smeal

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent…

— Benigno Aquino III

What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those…

— Malcolm Lowry

The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators.

— Rob Woodall

The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators…

— John Battelle

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting…

— Henry David Thoreau

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…

— Ayn Rand

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

— Ralph Nader