Across Quote by Rod Parsley

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of…

— Gary Ackerman

Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

— Nancy Pelosi

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the…

— Senator John Kerry

These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds.…

— Valerie Plame

“To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness…

— Alexander Hamilton

That's what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we'll talk…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

— William Butler Yeats

Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many…

— Norman Dorsen

The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

— Mark Shields

Making it harder for the most vulnerable voters to participate in the political process inevitably leads to policies and policymakers that do not represent…

— Nina Turner

There's a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions - like this anti-gay law you alluded to - and…

— Wole Soyinka