Quotes About Legislation

You let Congress make the laws. You work with the Congress as the president to make sure that those laws are accurate and to the best of our ability, but you don't turn it over to the federal judges to make those laws.

Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

Judges should decide legal disputes. Judges should not make law.

We have a problem with judicial activism in this country.

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

Judiciary is where my passion is.

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

We think climate change is important enough to get its own select committee. It would be in addition to the Energy and Commerce Committee's jurisdiction.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

I have never served on a jury because MPs were exempted - or banned, I think.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.

Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less thing that people have in common.

The SPF Act is just one of many common sense bills I plan on dropping. This act finally ends the yearly forwards/backwards time-change cycle.

Kansas and this country have been rewarding illegal immigration for a long time. Here in this state, that's going to stop the moment I take office.

Keeping politics out of the courtroom is a goal every state aspires to achieve.

65 immigration acts went through right at the time of the Great Society program. So pre-1970 immigrants - and that's basically when it kicked in - pre-1970 immigrants, 30% went home. They couldn't make it.

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

We have a separation of state and church. The laws of the country are not subject to the Koran.

It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'

We could have done a better job explaining what was in the Affordable Care Act, but when you talk to people and you don't label it, people get really excited about what's in it. It is going to make a big difference for people.

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

Rendering the slaughter process less inhumane is a possibility. A question is whether "humane slaughter" legislation for poultry will speed or delay the day when regarding a fellow creature as food is no longer an option.