Quotes About Legislation

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

The more laws, the less justice.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

The 1927 Supreme Court ruling that allowed Carrie Buck to be forcibly sterilized gave every state the green light to continue or begin sterilizing those deemed unfit to produce children, all in the name of "race betterment.

The English criminal code, later known as the "Bloody Code," was brutal in the late 18th century. By the time the first legal reforms were enacted in 1826, 220 crimes—many of them relatively petty crimes against property as Dickens describes in the rest of the paragraph—were punishable by death.

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the better, and the sooner, the better, making it impossible to take it away. Meaning, making it impossible to repeal Obamacare.

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind of knowledge and a special kind of person, but it doesn't always follow the party lines.

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

Parliament alone is sovereign.

He's a lovely guy, but there's no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government can't legislate for chemistry.

A mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words.

Ako se neko u vasem drustvu ubije pistoljem clanovi njegove porodice gube pravo na osiguranje. Ako on to ucini cigaretama ne gube pravo. Ako vam lekar pomogne u samoubistvu, to se naziva ubistvom, a ako vam to ucini duvanska kompanija, to se naziva trgovinom.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows? They do it all the time, says Hayden. That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.