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.
Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.
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.
Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
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.
My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.
In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.
Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.
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.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
