Best Legislature Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

“It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict 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 to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.”

Source: The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application, and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science

“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.”

Hands Exercise Fairs Method Executives Legislature Interventionism

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“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.”

Should War Great Men Executives Preference Intercourse Legislature Declaring Declaring War

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“Police officers today are a protected class, one no politician wants to oppose. Law enforcement interests may occasionally come up short on budgetary issues, but legislatures rarely if ever pass new laws to hold police more accountable, to restrict their powers, or to make them more transparent. In short, police today embody all of the threats the Founders feared were posed by standing armies, plus a few additional ones they couldn't have anticipated.”

Ifs Want May Today Law Interest Class Issues Politician Standing Army Police Threat Come Up Plus Officers Protected Founders Law Enforcement Enforcement Transparent Legislature Police Officer

Author:Radley Balko

“The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must not obstruct our obedience to Him from whose punishment they cannot protect us. All human constitutions which contradict His laws, we are in conscience bound to disobey.”

Humans Earth Law Protect Authority Conscience Constitution Bounds Punishment Obedience Laws Of Nature Legislature

Author:George Mason

“There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.”

Trying Stills War States Winning Term Rights Politician Court Supreme Supreme Court Legislature State Legislatures

Author:Gloria Allred

“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.”

Ifs Political Politics Drink Office Vote Ems Texas Screws Whiskey Legislature

Book:Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

“In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to those who do choose. The Senate are still more disproportionate, and for long terms of irresponsibility. In the Executive, the Governor is entirely independent of the choice of the people, and of their control; his Council equally so, and at best but a fifth wheel to a wagon. In the Judiciary, the judges of the highest courts are dependent on none but themselves.”

Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

“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.”

Should Dream Government Goal Limits Agree Surrender Your Dreams Legislature I Had A Dream Dreams You Have Small Dreams

Author:Jesse Jackson

“This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at me, say: "Why didn't it get done? Why didn't you do it?" You have to be responsible and accountable.”

Looks Done Differences Responsible Governors Look At Me Jersey Legislature Being Responsible New Jersey

Author:Chris Christie

“After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.”

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

Needs Rights Speech Corporations Amendments Free Speech Legislature Constitutional Amendments

Author:Hank Johnson

“Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.”

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it. 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 anything but liberty.”

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“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.”

People Needs Ideas Today America Loses Race Congress Seats Clash Legislature Havana

Author:John McCain

“As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families.”

Children School Christian Law Church Watches Policy Atheist Boards Homosexual Legislature Sidelines Christian Family School Board

Author:Robert Simonds

“The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.”

Cases Successful Information Products Wake Up Safety Lawyer Museums Defects Automobile Legislature Cover Ups Regulators

Author:Ralph Nader

“Maybe this Democratic president[Barack Obama] did and can get comprehensive health care reform passed, but notice, Medicaid is not expanded in any of these dark red states. The Republican Party may not be able to repeal Obamacare, but it certainly, through its state legislatures and governorships, has managed to halt Obamacare`s full impact.”

“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.”

States President Justice United United States Judging Constitution Legislature Benches

Author:Michele Bachmann

“Utah is close to becoming the latest state to legalize medical marijuana.But one DEA agent raised the alarm in front of the Utah legislature. He warned them that rabbits might eat the weed. And then what would you have? You'd have a bunch of weed-crazed rabbits running around. They'd run rampant in the state's cornfields and taco orchards.”

States Might Running Fronts Becoming Raised Medical Bunch Agents Weed Marijuana Rabbits Alarms Legislature Orchard Utah Tacos Medical Marijuana

Author:Peter Sagal

“I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.”

States Revival Legislature State Legislatures

Author:Gore Vidal

“If I had the choice now, I'd make New Jersey a state where you can have a shall issue on conceal and carry. Now our legislature won't do that, but I have done recently is to make sure that we're making it easier for folks to be able to get a permit in New Jersey because they deserve the right to do that as law-abiding citizens.”

Ifs States Done Able Law Choices Issues Citizens Easier Deserve Folks Permit Jersey Abiding Legislature New Jersey Law Abiding Citizen

Author:Chris Christie

“I think our message,the Clinton campaign was very strong. Remember, this is their fourth campaign in South Carolina. Two for Bill Clinton. Two for Hillary Clinton. They had it well organized. They did well. And Icongratulate them. We came into that state at something like 7 or 8 percent in the polls. It was a tough road for us to hoe. But I want to thank all of our supporters, the members of the South Carolina state legislature.”

“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.”

West Workers Strikes Golden Corporations California Controlled Farmers Southern Preacher Tails Legislature Pacific Railroads

Author:Mother Jones

“The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing are without precedent. Without precedent so with he's rewriting law. It's totally illegal.”

Writing Law Order President Written Barack Executives Illegal Legislature Precedent Rewriting Executive Orders

Author:Rafael Cruz

“The sky is always falling or the sky is always bright. In some ways, this is really morning in America and we don't see it. People are living longer, the economy is doing pretty well. On the other hand, there are some ways of thinking in the current situation that make it look not so good, including our Star Wars prequels - like legislature, meaning they're talking a lot, not doing a lot.”

People Thinking Way Wells Looks War Hands America Fall Stars Talking Situation Morning Economy Sky Including Currents Way Of Thinking Legislature Current Situation

Author:Cass Sunstein

“I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain cases and many have criticized its recent lack of deference to decisions made by state legislatures and Congress.”

Firsts Made States Certain Decision Cases Concern Court Democratic Raised Congress Clarity Legislature Decisions Made Deference State Legislatures

Author:Mike DeWine

“I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures.”

Want States Law Judging Constitution Court Congress Supreme Supreme Court Legislature State Legislatures

Author:John Cornyn

“Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline Kennedy, but we do know and have - this is not against somebody, this is for somebody who we know has had a proven record. It's 16 years in the House, 10 years on the City Council of New York City, that she has shown her determination to pass legislation. She is - she knows how a legislature works.”

Knows Years Wells Looks Courses House Cities Know How Records New York Determination New York City Proven Legislation Council Legislature City Council

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.”

Important Country States House Loses Behinds Rights Involved Gains Our Country Seats Representatives Womens Rights Lacking Legislature House Of Representatives State Legislatures Redistricting

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“There are new ways of producing food, film, clothing, and research that steer clear of using animals. Some of those products are functionally equivalent or even superior to what we're used to. Now corporations, legislatures, and other institutions are responding, and supporting these shifts, so we're seeing seismic changes throughout society.”

Way Film Used Animal Clear Seeing Products Research Institutions Superiors Corporations Clothings New Ways Legislature Responding Steers

Author:Wayne Pacelle

“The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that”

Can Do Taxes Dollars Consumers Buying Gambling Goods Revenue Legislature Lottery Sales Tax

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and the tribe voted yes, and as a tribal representative to the state legislature, I had to represent that decision.”

States Decision Vote Meetings Pursue Representatives Tribes Legislature Gaming Playing Games Casinos State Legislatures

Author:Donna M. Loring

“The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in the state, nor the legislature, nor in any other human power - but in God alone.”

Men Humans States Father Rights Rooted Founding Legislature Human Power Unalienable Rights

Author:Tom C. Clark

“What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other thing that's even more important in the long run is that very extreme money has affected the ecosystem of ideology in the country.”

Writing Long Important Country States Running Race Influence Extremes Ideology Affected Long Runs Legislature Ecosystems State Legislatures

Author:Jane Mayer

“The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence. They were remote from the population and that's where power was suppose to reside.”

People Powerful Influence Population Chosen Wealthy Senate Legislature

Author:Noam Chomsky

“What's blinking red on my radar is the fact that for people who prioritize abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights, those things are coming out of state legislatures, and some of the laws on reproduction stuff is coming out of city council, and so what's getting at me is the fact that there's just a fundamental lack of understanding that these laws are happening and being created by people who often won by ten votes in a midterm election.”

“The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a Democratic legislator to file that bill, so that there would be no risk of splitting the vote. The Democrats had about 85% of the Legislature at that time. They could have easily protected their access to the governorship. But they refused to do so. They wouldn't let the bill out of committee.”

Firsts Would Be Running Risk Office First Time Vote Bills Democratic Democrat Access Ran Protected Governors Committees Files Romney Legislature Legislators Massachusetts Splitting

Author:Jill Stein

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

Possibility Vote Bills Democratic Campaigns Splits Legislature

Author:Jill Stein

“We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if they focus on the levers, if they focus on Congress, and state legislatures.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Country States Young Turns Focus Easier Congress Legislature Levers State Legislatures

Author:Ralph Nader

“That is, I think that what I do, that democracy in Venezuela hasn't really worked well since the [Ugo] Chávez era and that it has gotten even worse since the last elections, in which the Maduro government lost control of the House, of the country's legislature.”

Thinking Wells Country Government Lasts House Lost Democracy Election Eras Legislature Venezuela

Author:Marco Rubio

“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.”

Two Care Interesting Republican Governors Senators Legislature Affordable Arizona Affordable Care Act

Author:Tim Kaine

“If you think, what was the last really big, big accomplishment for the nation that came purely out of the legislature? It might be the Americans with Disabilities Act. I mean that really was a legislative creation.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Bigs Might Lasts Nations Creation Accomplishment Disability Legislature

Author:Tim Kaine

“To strengthen the grassroots at the party - at the party unit, at the county level, at the precinct level, and then to help motivate and facilitate the local grassroots to get out there and turn out the vote and boost turn out. And then to help govern in places where we do hold city councils and state legislatures.”

States Helping Turns Levels Party Cities Vote Locals Units Council County Legislature Boost Facilitate Grassroots State Legislatures City Council

Author:Keith Ellison

“The problem with Keith Ellison's message and what you all are saying - and I - and I respect what you're saying because we have been there - is - and another irony of this campaign - is that Barack Obama always won astronomically on his own, but he has completely devastated the party. He's lost the Senate, the House, 30 governorships, over 900 legislatures.”

Has Beens Problem House Lost Party Messages Campaigns Barack Irony Senate Legislature Devastated Keith

Author:Mary Matalin

“I mean, we'll be pounding on the guy's chest, you know, on the floor, and you know, he's not going to just jump up all of a sudden. So it makes it tough. I mean, it's tough to be in the legislature, you know, and vote for something and then people say, well, you voted all this money and you know, it's all getting spent. It isn't getting spent. It's getting invested. But it's all getting spent. Nothing's happening.”

People Knows Wells Mean Guy Happenings Tough Vote Chests Legislature

Author:Warren Buffett

“We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures.”

Country Numbers Republican Governors Legislature

Author:Steve Inskeep

“The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Done Can Do Party Republican Areas Democratic Governors Democratic Party Legislature Take Control

Author:Collin Peterson

“Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.”

Legislature Quotes

Related topics

Legislature Quotes