Quotes About Legislation

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.

ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S.

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.

You cannot make men good by law.

GENERAL FRINK: Madame Chairwoman, if I may? ATKINSON: Proceed. FRINK: With all due respect, Senator Villesca, it's not like taxpayer money has never been used to hire prostitutes before. I know you're aware of that.

Aren't all laws simply man's attempt to codify moral concepts? Is not "legislation" simply our combined agreement as to what is "right" and "wrong"? Yes. And certain civil laws—rules and regulations—are required in your primitive society. (You understand that in nonprimitive societies such laws are unnecessary. All beings regulate themselves.)

Social, political, or legislative attempts to require that everybody agree with your personal truths are ultimately dictatorships.

a better explanation may be the fundamental deterioration of standards in both legislation and governance that we see in nearly every democracy, regardless of their different twentieth-century histories

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.

It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

The Democrats tax anything that moves.

Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.

I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.

My journey started in the courthouse and went to the statehouse.

The nation state law has nothing controversial.