Government Quote by Molly Ivins

In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is 'bureaucacy'; fiscal…

— Molly Ivins

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to…

— Doug Ose

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

— Learned Hand

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

— George W. Bush

“The language of law should be simple and straight, if you expect people to obey it.”

— Amit Kalantri

“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

“Aren’t all laws simply man’s attempt to codify moral concepts? Is not “legislation” simply our combined agreement as to what is “right” and “wrong”?…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is…

— Roland Barthes

It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how you start…

— Frank Luntz

I'm very much aware of the need for politicians to be careful with language as well as what they do.

— Sajid Javid

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

— Dick Cavett

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of…

— Felix Frankfurter