Legislature Quotes

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I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

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

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.

I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.

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

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed

It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.

I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.