Legislation Quotes - Page 2

• The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Law, Aggravation, Support

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• The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

  John Conyers

  Years, Opposites, Pell Grants

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• The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

  Bill McCollum

  Night, House, Reform

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• We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Rights, Years, Two

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• The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Finals, Matter, Normal

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

  Stephen Harper

  Believe, Government, Abortion

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• As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

  Isabel Paterson

  Law, Freak, Stand Alone

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

  Kinky Friedman

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• Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

  Denis Diderot

  Country, Europe, Government

  "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• I will always support legislation which respects and values life.

  Gresham Barrett

  Support, Values

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• Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

  Nancy Johnson

  Cells, House, Support

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• Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

  Alice Hamilton

  Illinois, Occupation, Disease

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Educational, Hands, People

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

  Major Owens

  People, Results

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• Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.

  Carl Menger

  Money, Independent, Power

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• A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

  Walter Lippmann

  Country, Depressing, Mean

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

  Rahm Emanuel

  America, Comforting, Mind

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• I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

  Major Owens

  Mean, Thinking, Long

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• People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Government, Land, Knowing

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• Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Oil, Giving, Environmental

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• My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Humor, Russia

  Remarks during radio microphone test, 11 Aug. 1984

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• When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

  Doug Ose

  Trying, Way, Accomplish

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• Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

  Milton Friedman

  Business, Political, Taxation

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• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Would Be, Actors

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• We can't abolish prejudice through laws.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  Law, Prejudice, Abolish

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