Quotes About Legislation

Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is one of the most ... anti-black laws on the statute books because it destroys entry level jobs for second paycheck earners, teens, and other unskilled workers.

The only legitimate purpose of congressional investigations is to determine whether there should be legislation to deal with certain problems and how that legislation should be designed.

the sobering admission that slavery "did not die honestly." It had died in all-out war, from necessity, not from enlightenment and morality alone. It had been crushed in blood, not merely legislated out of existence

I'm against abortion.

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

Late-term abortions are unconscionable.

Acts and laws are for people. People are not for Acts and laws. Acts and laws should be simple.

I'm not for single payer. But I'm for continuation of the Affordable Care Act.

The Affordable Care Act was not affordable. The Affordable Care Act is not affordable.

Religion cannot be the agenda of any government.

I want to help change the laws to protect all people - not just Republicans, not just Democrats, not just Black people, all people.

I grew up when 'Schoolhouse Rock' taught millions of American kids how a bill becomes a law.

Any deal that's not approved by Congress won't be accepted by Congress. Not now and certainly not in the future.

Nothing passes unchallenged there; the Houses of Parliament hatch some twelve hundred laws every session, yet no member of Parliament has ever yet raised an objection to the system —

Customs are reflection of the people and the law is reflection of country's reason.

Such, then, were the men in whose hands lay the welfare of the country. And, it must be confessed, they knew but little and cared still less about the common people for whom they legislated.

Stripe for stripe is human law; "by His stripes we are healed" is superhuman, the result of a legislation as gracious as it is divine.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

The Congressmen and Senators themselves had seen to it that bribery was the only way of doing business with them. Frequently they would introduce bills so bothersome to business that they would be offered handsome sums to withdraw them. The money would be accepted, since obtaining it was the only point of the enterprise, and the bill would be dropped. This technique was known as 'the Strike'. Others would call it extortion.

The time has arrived when those who favor fitting laws to modern needs in order to correct and cure social and industrial injustice must face their problems squarely and fairly. Everybody knows that Supreme Court decisions by a bare majority have for years been thrown as impassable barriers in the way of the solemn and well-matured legislative plans supported by the people.

Good laws left to the interpretation of evil men are no longer good.

In the absence of cabinet discussions which might have determined priorities, a flood of legislation emanating independently from each ministry had to be formulated by a cumbersome and grossly inefficient process whereby drafts were circulated and recirculated among ministers until some agreement was reached. Only at that stage would Hitler, if he approved after its contents were briefly summarized for him, sign the bill (usually scarcely bothering to read it) and turn it into law.

it is easier to legislate a rule than to develop a value.

In nearly all communities wife beating is punishable with a fine, and in no community is it made a felony.