Quotes About Legislation

Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in name only.

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

The way it's supposed to work is you pass a bill out of the House, you pass a bill out of the Senate, you go to conference on it, and you iron out the differences.

I wrote a lot of 'A Time to Kill' at the State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., hiding in little committee rooms, killing time waiting for legislation to come to the floor.

If I have to filibuster on the Senate floor, I'll even read the King James Bible until the wall is funded.

People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.

We deserve a Senator who helps us keep our jobs.

No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years.

Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

Un gobierno que se vende como honesto modifica la ley para ajustarla a sus caprichos; otorga directamente, sin licitación, contratos multimillonarios o, para inhibir las previsibles protestas por la construcción de la nueva refinería de Dos Bocas, auspicia una reforma al Código Penal de Tabasco, la llamada "ley garrote".

The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

The law is made by men, so it is not perfect either.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak, who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire.

Though the legislation follows the rise of the prevailing market wage rate, the myth continues to be built up that it is the minimum wage legislation that has raised the market wage.

in the course of social evolution, usage precedes law; and that when usage has been well established it becomes law by receiving authoritative endorsement and defined form.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

In my first year in Congress, I introduced a War Powers Resolution to end the war in Yemen.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

We desperately need comprehensive immigration reform in this nation, and yes, comprehensive immigration reform proposals are nuanced and complicated, but you know what shouldn't be? Our capacity to see each other's humanity.