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Quotes About Legislation

In New Mexico, we're very lucky that we have laws in place that really help ensure that Native Americans' right to vote is unencumbered.
~ Deb Haaland
Whenever the Republicans have an opportunity, they've tried to make New Mexico into a right-to-work state, and so I've been on the front lines fighting that for a long time.
~ Deb Haaland
It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.
~ Jay Parini
In fact, there is no law that says election results must come the same day as the election. Historically, they used to take days.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
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~ Nikola Tesla
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
~ Noam Chomsky
Ho sempre considerato la sfera del diritto e quella della politica come due facce della stessa medaglia. Il mondo delle regole e il mondo del potere: il potere che crea le regole, le regole che trasformano il potere di fatto in un potere di diritto.
~ Norberto Bobbio
You can change the law, but you can't change people and how they treat each other.
~ Colson Whitehead
But in general the people who I think would be moved by art, moved to change legislation, don't read novels, don't read poems, and don't really care that someone's written a book about a place like Dozier.
~ Colson Whitehead
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
~ Larry Elder
Quanto maggiore sarà il numero di quelli che intenderanno e avranno fralle mani il sacro codice delle leggi, tanto meno frequenti saranno i delitti, perché non v'ha dubbio che l'ignoranza e l'incertezza delle pene aiutino l'eloquenza delle passioni.
~ Cesare Beccaria
Perché ogni pena non sia una violenza di uno o di molti contro un privato cittadino, dev'essere essenzialmente pubblica, pronta, necessaria, la minima delle possibili nelle date circostanze, proporzionata a' delitti, dettata dalle leggi.
~ Cesare Beccaria
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
~ Charles Dickens
The law is sic a ass - a idiot.
~ Charles Dickens
The law is a ass, Sir!
~ Charles Dickens
Death is Nature's remedy for all things, and why not Legislation's?
~ Charles Dickens
Gentlemen, bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
~ Edmund Burke, 1780
Patents Act, 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this
~ Grace Thompson
A Wall for the Mexican border was passed, and billions approved in 2006 [H.R. 6061 (109th): Secure Fence Act of 2006] , with the votes of Senators Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Ouch! Facts hurt.
~ Greg Palast
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.
~ Groucho Marx
Victims of the delusion that equality and liberty are the better assured by the multiplication of laws, nations daily consent to put up with trammels increasingly burdensome. They do not accept this legislation with impunity. Accustomed to put up with every yoke, they soon end by desiring servitude, and lose all spontaneousness and energy.
~ Gustave Le Bon
signed into law in 1955 as the Limited-Profit Housing Companies Act.
~ Gwen Cooper