Quotes About Legislation

Only one Republican voted against Reagan's tax cut—Vermont's Jim Jeffords

Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy.

Democracies have a weakness: If a bad law has enough money or people behind it, it stays on the books.

One-half of the people of this nation today are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.

Discriminatory legislation emboldens those who seek to make us afraid while giving those communities it hurts a concrete reason to fear. We must stay away from anti-immigrant legislation as well as so-called religious freedom legislation that harms our LGBTQ communities.

You can't legislate sobriety.

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.

I began to understand that not only was there was a social justice agenda, there was a policy agenda. For every justice campaign there was a policy initiative associated with it.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

We will battle day and night to pass social security reform.

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in their districts are affected by any changes, by the need for changes in Social Security.

I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

If we elect people who have never been to public school, never had to worry about counting on Social Security, then how can they effectively legislate?

We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

Maine needs a comprehensive solar policy that brings us into the 21st century.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation that wasn't sold as such. On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. It was Obama's boldest piece of legislation and the one that will most likely define him.

The major reform legislation, Dodd-Frank, was named after two guys bought and sold by special interests, and one of them should be shouldering a good amount of blame for the crisis.