Quotes About Legislation

What this means for parents is that you never know what your child's "sex education" class may entail. Only fourteen states require that sex ed be medically accurate.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

You cannot legislate an attitude.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

In 1856 the state of Victoria, which had been carved out of New South Wales in 1851, and the state of Tasmania would become the first places in the world to introduce an effective secret ballot in elections, which stopped vote buying and coercion. Today we still call the standard method of achieving secrecy in voting in elections the Australian ballot.

Australia was not Britain, and its law would not be just British.

1791 the French National Assembly emancipated French Jewry. The

Basically, in Alabama if you have a pulse you can have a gun, as many of them as you want.

He patted the stock of Reel's rifle. "We don't do it with this. We do it by raising dark money to fund policies and candidates that we like. We even help write legislation.

Garfield fought side by side with African Americans during the Civil War; and after the War, he worked side by side with America's first African American congressmen to pass those early civil rights bills.

there is no such thing as a good tax

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

A Constitution", said Napoleon, "should be short and obscure.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

To argue that because Old Testament law does not prescribe explicit penalties related to infringement of its economic legislation, therefore modern civil authorities are excluded from any form of intervention in the economic marketplace betrays both the inadequacy of theonomism's preoccupation with penalties and also, in my view, its ideological bias towards unfettered, free-market economic capitalism.

Righteousness can never be legislated. It is a matter of the heart.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

The law is a horrible business.

it does not make much difference what kind of a law we make as long as the judges tell us what it means.

No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Government is essentially immoral.