Quotes About Legislator

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

We worked very well with Mark Sanford. We stood shoulder to shoulder fighting for the principles that we believe in. But another person that stood there as well was a legislator, State Senator Larry Grooms.

Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

Paul Ryan has been a responsible legislator and public servant, almost alone among members of Congress in his belief that we need to strengthen and save our social entitlements.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

Republican Ebon C. Ingersoll of Illinois, however

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.

I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done.

I've never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average person is thinking more about what I've accomplished in my professional career and what I've accomplished in my career as a legislator.

I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power.

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

It is essential, therefore, that in republican government, representatives avoid efforts intended to change the general spirit of the nation—that is, the legislator must help preserve and protect society, not eradicate it.