Quotes About Legislature

There are more numb-nuts around here than in the Florida state legislature, which, believe me, was a whole passel of numb-nuts.

Religious lobbyists have used the "secularism" and "discrimination" arguments to cover their voracious and seemingly insatiable demands to obtain rights to act however they choose. They "need" legislatures to help them, because they are so weak and so discriminated against, or at least that is their shtick.

During the 25 elections between 1850 and 1898 . . . turnover averaged 50.2 percent. On average, more than half the House during any given session in the second half of the nineteenth century was made up of first term members.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect. You should always cherish some ambition of doing something in this world. But remember that the age of selflessness has ended. A new epoch is set in. All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the politics and legislature of your country.

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.

Carl Parker observes, if you took all the fools out of the Lege, it wouldn't be

and they starts biddin' on me. And when they cried off and this Mr. Crosby come up to get me, I just pulled out my papers and helt 'em up high and when he sees 'em he say, "Let me see them." But I says, "You just look at it up here." He squints up and say, "This gal am free and has papers." And tells me he a legislature man and takes me and lets me stay with his slaves. He is a good man.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.