Quotes About Legislation

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

I think there might be a better way,change the law

She answered: please believe me, what has happened in my family is not what you think. I can say only this—that everything I learned about human decency I learned here. I learned nothing from you except how to be suspicious. I didn't know what hate was until I lived among you and saw you hating every day. They even had to pass laws to keep you from hating.

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

While I am talking about private sector job creation, the cap-and-trade energy tax, Speaker Pelosi's health-care bill and card-check legislation, Washington Democrats are defending groups like ACORN. They are on the wrong side of the issues and know their views are wrong for Arkansas, so they attack me.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

People ask me a lot, 'Well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist?' And I think that, yeah, maybe personally you can be those things. But I think if you're advocating for legislation, or if you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy.

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.

The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.

One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

There's a long bipartisan tradition of civil rights enforcement.

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

What Labor has said very clearly is that there should be up to life sentences for people who traffic in guns.

I have worked positively and successfully with Senator Sessions on issues like adoption and human trafficking.

Congress can prevent future tragedies by requiring a background check for every gun purchase in America.

The Protect America's Schools Act is not the only answer, but it is a positive step forward in preventing tragedies.

Striking down the Affordable Care Act would be a tragic setback.