Quotes About Legislation

The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.

Class-action lawsuits should allow those with serious injuries to have their own day in court. The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act would do just that.

The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

I was 10 when the Equal Pay Act was passed. It was pretty inspiring stuff.

The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

I think it's ridiculous and appalling that people have to go abroad to end their life instead of being able to end their life at home.

If I were able to do something unilaterally, I would probably institute a new federal rule that said all cases worth less than $500,000 would be tried without any discovery.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

I would say the No. 1 problem with the Volcker Rule is it's too complicated, and people don't know how to interpret it.

Courts should interpret the law but leave elected lawmakers to create it.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee it has been important to me to intersect with Hoosier farmers as often as possible.

Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.

What corruption is for poor countries, lobbying is for rich ones, a means of obtaining political influence through the expense of money.9 No other country has anything like the number of American lobbyists who load up legislation with interest group bargains.

It would also be helpful if (magically) we knew how many of a country's lawyers were active in the practice of law, and how many of them were transactional lawyers. Finally, we would want to know whether lawyer-legislators are on average more likely to support legislation that promotes litigation.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.