Quotes About Legislation

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

unwinding is, by law, painless.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather see a killer unwound than the kid next door. Vote yes on Initiative 11.

Funny, but the Bill of Life was supposed to protect the sanctity of life. Instead it just made life cheap.

because no bill was, or would ever be, brought to a scythe.

Everything is terrorism these days: downloading, uploading, jaywalking with intent to cause fear.

Washington les hizo caso. En abril de 2012 el presidente Obama incluyó la financiación colectiva en la Ley Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS). Dicha ley facilita a las empresas pequeñas

The approach I take to legislation a lot of times is that Mississippi has been a state for 198 years, and if we have made it this long without a particular law being on the books, we can probably make it another year without it.

If it's good for Mississippi, I'll vote for it. If it comes from the Democratic side, fine. If it's good for us, I'll vote for it. But the converse is also true.

We need to continue to make the Missouri tax code simple and fair.

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

You can't legislate morality.

To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

More law, less justice.

There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

stability of government and dependability of laws which attracted foreigners.

There should be a law, I thought. If you support a war, if you think it's worth the price, that's fine, but you have to put your own precious fluids on the line. You have to head for the front and hook up with an infantry unit and help spill the blood. And you have to bring along your wife, or your kids, or your lover. A law, I thought.

The federal government was entirely complicit. When President Roosevelt passed the Social Security Act of 1935, Southern conservatives and their Northern Republican allies forced the New Deal legislation to exclude domestic workers and farmworkers from all of its employment provisions. That shielded