Legislation Quotes - Page 24

• Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

  Plato

  Military, War, Educational

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• Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't find much actual global warming in present-day weather observations. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone's permission or explaining itself.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Government, Heal Itself, Weather

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• [Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law.

  Abul A'la Maududi

  Lying, Islamic, Law

  "The Islamic Law & Constitution". Book by Abul A'la Maududi, Islamic Books, p. 74, 1980.

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• I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.

  John McCain

  Government, Typical, Roles

  "Obama strategy: Equal pay, not abortion" by Avi Zenilman and Carrie Budoff Brown, www.politico.com. July 14, 2008.

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• The first thing I plan to do is what I did while serving in Arizona’s legislature — and that was to seek out members that I often disagreed with on important issues. It was through our authentic relationships and mutual respect that we found common ground on legislation that helped people. The challenge for Congress is to move past the harsh partisanship that we saw in the last term. This is a critical step in advancing policies that will strengthen and protect LGBT families.

  Kyrsten Sinema

  Moving, Past, Issues

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• I don't think that the problems or the issues relate to any single piece of legislation. I think that they really do relate to the mindset that after eight years is pretty deeply embedded. It is not going to be easy to reverse itself.

  Ted Gup

  Thinking, Years, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

  John F. Kennedy

  Law, Employment, Gains

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• I don't support any gun-control legislation - the effort for a new assault-weapons ban, with a ban on semiautomatic weapons, is something I would oppose.

  Mitt Romney

  Gun, Gun Control, Support

  "President Obama Has Only Ever Signed Gun Laws That Expand Owners' Rights" by Patrick Jonsson, www.businessinsider.com. September 10, 2012.

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• A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not private advantage being the end in view.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Exercise, Views, Law

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• ...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

  Jacques Delors

  Years, Economic, Social

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• O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

  Jeremy Bentham

  Math, Destiny, Pedants

  Jeremy Bentham (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.145

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