Legislation Quotes

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

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

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

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.

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

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

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.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

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.

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

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

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

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.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

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.

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.

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

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

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

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.

Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

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.

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.

The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.

I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

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

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

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

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

We can't abolish prejudice through laws.

The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that voting for this [anti-terrorism] legislation fundamentally violates that oath.

If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.

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.'

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow