Quotes About Legislation

Obamacare is a big deal to me. It's terrible legislation.

Obamacare is not popular.

I'm opposed to Obamacare expansion in Mississippi. I'm opposed to Obamacare expansion in Mississippi. I'm opposed to Obamacare expansion in Mississippi.

Obama is trying to protect Obamacare, and then obviously even in his own party a bunch of people are against it.

Obamacare cannot be fixed and Republicans must not extend this disastrous legislation.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

We've had an assault rifle ban in our country, and that did not accomplish the objectives. We had Columbine during the time that that ban was in place.

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is left to the judge than to determine whether an action is or is not conformable to the written law.

Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

Otto von Bismarck quipped, Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

A lei não decide se a coisa é errada, apenas se é legal.

Action, not principle is the object of law and legislation; with a person's principles no government has any right to interfere.

If I want, when I want), Christiane campaigned for the legalization of both. In 1967, the Neuwirth Act finally legalized the sale of contraceptive devices, but abortion wasn't legalized until 1975, and advertisements for contraceptives remained banned until 2001, four decades after the pill was introduced in America.

Environmentalists are Gaia's priests, instructing us in her proper service and casting out those who refuse to genuflect. And having proclaimed the ultimate commandment--carbon chastity--they are preparing the supporting canonical legislation that will tell you how much you can travel, what kind of light you will read by and what temperature you may set your bedroom thermostat.

First, as I will explore in this book, our preferences—the things we buy, the places we choose to live—do not always maximize our happiness in the long run. Second, sprawl, as an urban form, was laid out, massively subsidized, and legally mandated long before anyone actually decided to buy a house there. It is as much the result of zoning, legislation, and lobbying as a crowded city block. It did not occur naturally. It was designed.

We have not had a free market in real estate for eighty years," Ellen Dunham-Jones, Georgia Tech professor of architecture and coauthor of Retrofitting Suburbia, told me. "And because it is illegal to build in a different way, it takes an immense amount of time for anyone who wants to do it to get changes in zoning and variance. Time is money for developers, so it rarely happens.

Everyone vain, dull, peevish, and sexually frustrated dreams of legislating his impotence. Mao's uniforms: a billion people dressing the same and shouting from his little red book continues to be the secret hope of new visionaries.

All told, the Fifty-first Congress passed 531 public laws, representing an unprecedented level of legislative accomplishment unequaled until Theodore Roosevelt's second term. After the final adjournment on March 3, the historian and Republican congressman Henry Cabot Lodge wrote, "No Congress in peace time since the first has passed so many great & important measures of lasting value to the people.