Legislation Quotes

• A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

  Larry Elder

  Gun, Roots, Demand

  FaceBook post by Larry Elder from Dec 04, 2015

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• One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

  Thomas Reed

  Libertarian Party, Evil, Liberty

  "Will It Be As Always?" by Henryk A. Kowalczyk, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.

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• You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Light, Government

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• From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sovereign, All Time

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.42, Penguin

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• Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

  Andrew Johnson

  Wise, Presidential, Welfare

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868-April 1869”, p.471, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Inflation is taxation without legislation.

  Milton Friedman

  Money, Taxation, Conservative

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• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  Barack Obama

  Music, Powerful, Pieces

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• The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Law, Rope

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

  Jay Sekulow

  Speech, Morality, Ifs

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• Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.

  Martin Van Buren

  Two, House, Wish

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.14

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• For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

  Barney Frank

  Welfare Programs, People, Effort

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• The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

  Mike Pence

  War, Reality, Hiking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

  James F. Cooper

  Party, Purpose, Politics

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Children, Giving, Facts

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• A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

  Marc Racicot

  Judging, Decision, Abortion

  "Late-term abortion ban ruled unconstitutional". www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.

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• The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

  David Boies

  Past, Rights, Decision

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• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Important, President, Signatures

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• All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

  Elinor Glyn

  Kissing, World, Abolish

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• And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.

  Daryl Hannah

  Issues, Done, Sides

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• The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

  John Sweeney

  Pay, Administration, Workers

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• In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.

  Conan O'Brien

  Moving, People, Cleveland

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• New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Organization, Child Labor

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• In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

  Tony Campolo

  Thinking, Abortion, Moral

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• In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Europe, Actors

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• Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Aggravation, Challenges, Congress

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