Legislators Quotes - Page 10

• The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Dubious, Way

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People”, p.47, Oxford University Press

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• I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

  Sharron Angle

  Firsts, Asian, Nevada

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. October 19, 2010.

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• In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

  Robert Bork

  Law, Judging, Democracy

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  Gary Bauer

  Law, Judging, Quality

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• What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Men, Weakness, Helping

  Malcolm Lowry (1965). “Selected letters”

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• Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

  Josiah Warren

  Mistake, Firsts, Combination

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• In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

  Dan Maffei

  Thinking, Problem, Politician

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• So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

  Sharron Angle

  Country, Teenager, Grandchildren

  "Angle to Hispanic children: “Some of you look a little more Asian to me”". lasvegassun.com. October 18, 2010.

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• I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Differences, Judging, Constitution

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the fact that, as a terrorist, you could still buy a gun in this country because the NRA lobby is so strong.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Strong, Gun

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Heart, Greatness

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• When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

  Mark Shields

  Sea, Causes, Size

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• Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.

  Russ Feingold

  Jobs, Integrity, Hard Work

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• It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges.

  Ted Cruz

  Justice, Judging, Roles

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• I'm addicted to the Internet. I admit it. It has transformed the way I work as a senator, communicate with my children, and keep tabs on news and cultural developments.... The Internet is a more direct communications link between legislators and their constituents....I constantly work at fusing my Senate work into my office home page to make it as useful, timely, and user-friendly as possible for Vermonters and others who may visit.....I look at my Web site, as my 24-hour virtual office, where visitors can send me an e-mail or search for the information they need anytime, day or night.

  Patrick Leahy

  Children, Communication, Home

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• We had a lot of people say, you guys are the most ineffective legislators in Olympia and your bills never go anywhere ... They can't say that anymore, can they?

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, People, Guy

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• I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

  Rob Portman

  Thinking, Trying, Done

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• Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.

  Charley Reese

  Government, Cities, People

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• The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  College, Rights, Government

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• Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the right to chose, the citizenry will probably make the wrong choice. Legislators do not think any more in terms of persuading people; they feel the need to force their agenda on the public at the point of a bayonet and the barrel of a gun, in the name of the IRS, the SEC, the FDA, the DEA, the EPA, or a multitude of other ABCs of government authority.

  Mark Skousen

  Believe, Thinking, Gun

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• They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Sheep, Shepherds, Would Be

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.60, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the matter, on the administrators of the health-care centers where abortions are performed. In this sense abortion goes beyond the responsibility of individuals and beyond the harm done to them, and takes on a distinctly social dimension. It is a most serious wound inflicted on society and its culture by the very people who ought to be societys promoters and defenders.

  Pope John Paul II

  Fall, Responsibility, Abortion Laws

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• Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.

  Plutarch

  Men, Rights, House

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