Quotes About Legislation

How did the Farm Bill achieve overwhelming support from Congress in the face of such widespread calls for reform?...In exchange for leaving support for the large commodity crop farmers in place, House and Senate negotiators packaged support for nearly everyone else into the bill.

That the makers of laws are the majority who are weak; and they make laws and distribute praises and censures with a view to themselves and to their own interests.

the rulers make laws for their own interests. But

We have the worst laws.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon biblical foundations, that morality cannot be legislated, but what they offer is not only legislated morality, but salvation by law.

We may disagree with the morality of a law, but we cannot deny the moral concern of a law.

if the House and Senate wouldn't write laws to force the courts to do so, then judges and politicians couldn't be counted on to protect anyone, anywhere, at any time.

In Washington, D.C., where the Volstead Act—which provided for enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment—had been militantly approved, the police reported nearly a ten-fold increase in drunk driving arrests since the legislation was enacted.

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

The reality is that what we did in 2010 with the Dodd-Frank wasn't enough.

When laws are literally written now to make donors happy, we've got a problem.

I never dread going back to Congress.

No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving.

You know, MMA doesn't need New York, New York needs MMA. And I say that with all due respect to New York.

It is clear that IDEA '97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.

There are elements of Dodd-Frank that clearly need to be curtailed.

We do not need $1 allowed for the president to enact amnesty.

I don't need to understand how encryption works to understand how it's helping the criminals.

It's not so much the attorney general's job to decide what laws to enforce. We should do our jobs and enforce laws effectively as we're able.

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.