Legislation Quotes

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

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

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.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.

Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after the furnaces of Dachau shut down.

I don't think anyone here supports the legislation. But I'd like to hear you at least say that you don't support spanking by any parent, because you choose not to do it. You must think it's wrong.

Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

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

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

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

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

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.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive.

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.

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

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

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

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.

Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

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

Live to fight another day on better legislation.

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

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.

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.

I will always support legislation which respects and values life.

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.

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

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

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.

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.

You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.