Quotes about Legislature

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. Votes: 4

Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off. Votes: 4

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office. Votes: 4

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. Votes: 4

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. Votes: 4

Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign. Votes: 3

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress. Votes: 3

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media. Votes: 3

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress. Votes: 3

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people. Votes: 3

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few. Votes: 3

Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle. Votes: 3

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act. Votes: 3

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up. Votes: 3

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty. Votes: 3

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage. Votes: 3

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. Votes: 3

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature. Votes: 3

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add. Votes: 3

I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point. Votes: 3

[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper. Votes: 3

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet. Votes: 3

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph. Votes: 3

Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should be: Is a parent criminally responsible for leaving an unlocked container of bleach below the sink? Votes: 3

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. Votes: 3

When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency. Votes: 3

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading. Votes: 3

In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a state of War. Votes: 3

[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch. Votes: 3

Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins. Votes: 3

Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1. Votes: 2

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn. Votes: 2

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Votes: 2

The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is. Votes: 2

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. Votes: 2

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? Votes: 2

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. Votes: 2

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi. Votes: 2

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed. Votes: 2

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it. Votes: 2

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution. Votes: 2

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. Votes: 2

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. Votes: 2

On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already? Votes: 2

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all. Votes: 2

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund? Votes: 2

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. Votes: 2

These illegal aliens are criminals and we need to treat them as such. I'm not in favor of giving amnesty to anybody who has broken the law. I applaud what our Georgia legislature is doing in trying to crack down on this situation. Votes: 2

I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about. Votes: 2

Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law. Votes: 2

Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect the rights in the Constitution, have to protect the requirement that the executive and the legislature not simply exercise raw power but adhere to standards of reasonableness and constitutionality. Votes: 2

Ultimately, we have to decide, with the Legislature: Are we willing to take some bold steps to make us even more competitive in the future, competing in a global economy? I think Nebraskans are willing to listen to that discussion. They want an opportunity for their kids and grandkids to live here. Votes: 2

I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed. Votes: 2

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration. Votes: 2

And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up. Votes: 2

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty. Votes: 2

The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act. Votes: 2

It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands. Votes: 2

No state legislature ever built a great university. Votes: 0

No state legislature ever built a great university. Votes: 0

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. Votes: 0

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature. Votes: 0

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. Votes: 0

It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned. Votes: 0

Democrats, folks, only have five states where they have the governorship and the state legislature. Votes: 0

Democrats, folks, only have five states where they have the governorship and the state legislature. Votes: 0

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. Votes: 0

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations. Votes: 0

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress. Votes: 0

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent. Votes: 0

I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip. Votes: 0

The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country. Votes: 0

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature. Votes: 0

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. Votes: 0

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. Votes: 0

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed Votes: 0

My campaign filed the bill back in 2002 in the Democratic legislature, 85% Democratic, they could have prevented any possibility of a split vote. Votes: 0

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. Votes: 0

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of any legislature -- but in the hearts of men. Votes: 0

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people. Votes: 0

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many. Votes: 0

No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels. Votes: 0

It was interesting, when the Affordable Care Act passed, Arizona did it immediately, even though they had two Republican senators, a Republican governor, Republican legislature. Votes: 0

Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary and police. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country. Votes: 0

Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe. Votes: 0

[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal social orders and, equally important, an independent executive. Votes: 0

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature. Votes: 0

The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances. Votes: 0

Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility. Votes: 0

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature. Votes: 0

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective. Votes: 0

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don't see themselves as a super legislature. Votes: 0

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this. Votes: 0

It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments. Votes: 0

Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0