Quotes About Legislation

The Tories wanted to get rid of fuel poverty targets. I stopped them.

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

I am convinced that creative minds in the name of greed can concoct schemes faster than we can get legislation against them.

t's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...

In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.

And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.

Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.

Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

There is no question we are having a difficult time rounding up the votes.

The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.

Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

Russian law in fact gives the prime minister no authority over the military.

In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the "middling sort." Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function, preserving the sacrosanct space of inner thought that is our birthright. Assaults on that birthright in the forms of legislation, surveillance, and censorship ultimately are precisely as dangerous as our acquiescence in them.

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Lobbying" is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators.

Child labor was not ended by legislative fiat; child labor ended when it became economically unnecessary for children to earn wages in order to survive—when the income of their parents became sufficient to support them. The emancipators and benefactors of those children were not legislators or factory inspectors, but manufacturers and financiers.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.

hadn't yet gotten either item through Congress—mainly because, on my very first day in office, I hadn't had the foresight to tell Harry Reid and the rest of the Senate Democrats to revise the chamber rules and get rid of the filibuster once and for all.