Quotes of: Legislator Keyword

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

Norman Ralph Augustine

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

Gray Davis

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Thomas Reed

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Milton Friedman

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

Chuck Schumer

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

Ben Elton

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

David Crosby

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Millard Fillmore

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Garry Trudeau

In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

Bill Dedman

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

Richard Dreyfuss

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

Barney Frank

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

Tippi Hedren

If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.

Katherine Harris

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

Milton Friedman

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

Todd Akin

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

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

Denis Diderot

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Frank Serpico

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

Elliott Abrams

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

John Ruskin