Quotes About Legislation

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record

Not all freedom from the law occurs as a result of legislation. Sometimes there is religious "liberty" from the law when prosecutors fail to enforce the law and instead pander to religious leaders, ergo, perceived voting blocs. For decades, prosecutors across the United States knew about the abuse in the Catholic dioceses, but hesitated to prosecute for fear of Catholic backlash.

Congress also kicked around a constitutional amendment in 2004, the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) (formerly known as the Federal Marriage Amendment), which would have banned all gay marriages in the United States.18 It is a classic example of elected representatives using religion and religion only to justify a law. Representative

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important.

What India needs most is a unified food law.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.