"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at… — James L. Buckley
• When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the… — Edmund Burke
• Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the… — William S. Burroughs
• Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a… — Doris Day
• Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare… — Thomas Jefferson
• And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end… — Frederic Bastiat
• Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation… — Ayn Rand
• The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and… — Thomas Jefferson
• There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith. — Lawrence M. Krauss
• Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men… — Katha Pollitt
• The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow… — John Beddington
• The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a… — Pope John Paul II

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