Quotes About Legislation

I do believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, would-be terrorists, and a lot of other people.

Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.

Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.

A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his laws, sees to it that every contingency is provided for in detail.

If you want to change a law, you have to pass a law. Presidents don't write laws. Congress writes laws.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before.

He noted that the same summer that witnessed the Constitutional Convention saw the passage of the Northwest Ordinance barring slavery north of the Ohio River.

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.

Everything we do is very, very touched by what happens in Washington.

Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

We must find a better way to enforce the Equalities Act, rather than require the injured party to sue a business, and we must, through legislation and legal action, get tougher on those organisations and industries who ignore or, worse still, exploit disabled people.

I campaigned on signing the toughest abortion bill in the country.

The U.K. has some of the toughest legislation on hate crime in the world, and it is there to keep us all safe.

I have toured my constituency maximum number of times as a member of the Lok Sabha among the MPs from Madhya Pradesh.

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

Congress needs to get over their political bias with each other and work toward saving children's lives.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.