Quotes About Legislation

U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to "declare war.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

leaving Maryland as one of sixteen states that does not allow a rape victim to terminate the parental rights of her attacker.

Maryland as one of sixteen states that does not allow a rape victim to terminate the parental rights of her attacker.

seventy-three thousand pages of IRS regulations, he laughed at the very suggestion.

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

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

H]ate-crime legislation was enacted to give special protections to select constituencies, and, as practiced, it makes certain people more valuable than others in the eyes of the law--exactly the kind of thinking that civil rights, feminist, and gay-rights groups wanted to combat.

bloody Married Women's Property Act.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

As the former state speaker of the North Caroline House of Representatives, I helped push two landmark bills that protected and expanded gun rights for citizens.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation.

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.

It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.

Conservation of any endangered species must begin with stringent efforts to protect its natural habitat by the enforcement of rigid legislation against human encroachment into parks and other game sanctuaries.

Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.

The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion - well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific Congressional district.