Come Quote by Margrethe Vestager

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

Well, I've been a legislator, and I'm the governor now. When you get in these positions, you've got to be held to a pretty…

— Mike Parson

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of…

— William Howard Taft

While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.

— Jamie Dimon

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

— Marco Rubio

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

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

“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

“Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is…

— Earl Warren

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do…

— Major Owens

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence…

— Frederic Bastiat

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

— Rob Portman