Lawmakers Quotes

• There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Motivational, Women, Law

  In The Arena.

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• We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

  Charles Rangel

  Office, People, Community

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• As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.

  Greg Walden

  Responsibility, Practice, Energy

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• It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

  Greg Walden

  Land, Forests, Stewardship

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• Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

  Dennis Hastert

  Our World, Needs, Savvy

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• As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  America, People, Presidential

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• Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

  Jim Ryun

  War, Yesterday, House

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• I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Marriage, Men, Thank God

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• Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

  Josh Marshall

  Strong, Powerful, Lobbyists

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• Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

  Matt Taibbi

  Minorities, Bills, Amendments

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.20, Black Cat

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• Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

  Mary Robinson

  Heart, Rights, Long

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• Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Impact, Government, Needs

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• I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed in the ear?

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Ears, Tone

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2013

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• We've learned something about President-elect [Donald] Trump's choice for secretary of defense. Lawmakers in Congress intend to proper debate over whether retired General James Mattis meets a requirement for civilian control of the military.

  Steve Inskeep

  Military, Choices, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle...

  H. L. Mencken

  Honesty, Men, Law

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• More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms of our laws, not by the unenacted will of our lawmakers. 'If Congress enacted into law something different from what it intended, then it should amend the statute to conform to its intent.' In the meantime, this Court 'has no roving license ... to disregard clear language simply on the view that ... Congress 'must have intended' something broader.

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Men, Views

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• I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Religious, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Astrology, Games

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.261, Vintage

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• I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Sarcastic, Running

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• The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.

  Denise Caruso

  Powerful, Principles, Example

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• Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

  Mayer Amschel Rothschild

  Money, Writing, Issues

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• If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Tyrants, Evil

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• What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Emotional, Israel, Attachment

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• You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  Carly Fiorina

  Crazy, Believe, Men

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• I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

  George W. Bush

  Crazy, Believe, Men

  "Fox News Sunday" with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2003.

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