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• We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

  William O. Douglas

  "Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. v. Missouri, 342 U.S. 421". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 3, 1952.

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• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  Gary Miller

  Responsibility, Waiting, Committed

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• We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

  Pete Domenici

  Fall, Cracks, Mexico

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• Cap the well, yes, clear up the mess, yes, make compensation, yes absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that would be right.

  David Cameron

  Thinking, Would Be, Target

  "David Cameron tells Barack Obama he will release Lockerbie files" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Teacher, Children, Home

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• I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Birth Defects, Dimes, Research

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• In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.

  Cliff Stearns

  Cloning, January, Prohibition

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• The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Government, Important, Quality

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• Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

  Chris Chocola

  September 11, World, Immigration

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• Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

  Kent Conrad

  Care, Reform, Kind

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• Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Strong, Powerful, Hard Work

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sex, Simple, Equal Pay

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.23, Best Books on

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• The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

  Elihu Root

  Men, Ideas, Perfection

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.

  Butch Otter

  Healthcare Reform, Pushing Through, Usa

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• There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Money, Giving

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• Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

  John Mica

  Reform, Joining, Economic

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• For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, School, Law

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• The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

  John Conyers

  Party, Dubai, Tasks

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• Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

  Leland Stanford

  Important, Wealth, Protection

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• All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

  Henry Clay

  Principles, Mutual, Concessions

  "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell", www.nbcnews.com. March 16, 2011.

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• Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

  Nick Rahall

  Compassion, People, Desire

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• The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

  William Howard Taft

  Success, Presidential, World

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.126, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Light, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.211, Graphic Arts Books

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• The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  People, Weakness, Benefits

  Thomas Francis Meagher (1853). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”, p.83

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• The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Writing, Kids

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