Quotes About Legislation

When the good ones, the hardworking hill climbers, are displaced for any reason—bad legislation, ghetto diffusion, or political leveraging—social sewage will flood in to fill the void. It

As governor of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson signed a bill granting every white male who enlisted for the duration of the war "300 acres of land plus a healthy sound Negro between 20 and 30 years of age or 60 pounds in gold

The cable law. Prasar Bharati. The Broadcasting Bill. These are all overlapping things.

We know shark's fin is a huge problem. In California now, you can't buy it or sell it.

The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

When candidates run on conservative principles, they win. But when we legislate conservative policies, the American people win.

The Senate is where the issues are, and most people there are career politicians.

I study these bills. I read them carefully. If it makes sense, I'll sign on them. If not, I don't.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

The government will not support a nine-week work year. That I can say with certainty.

We want to make sure that nobody has an advantage over us based on laws that are easily changeable.

The last time I checked, the president was supposed to sit down and figure out what he wanted and then get Congress to go along with it.

I do support and believe in the Second Amendment. But I do think we need more background checks rather than less.

We must, we must cut the EPA's legs off. I hate to say that, because it sounds rotten, but they are choking this country to death with legislating through the bureaucracy in Washington.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

If there's amnesty leading to citizenship, I'm going to vote against it again.

To me, I know that if we could pass the Civil Rights Act of '64 over 50 years ago, then we can pass Justice for All Civil Rights Act. We can pass Medicare for All.

All states have to be on board with the common objective of checking supply of various types of drugs.

I'm proud to support legislation that would increase the competitiveness of American-made pharmaceuticals and allow our nation's manufacturers to better prevent and respond to shortages.

I have been and will continue to be 100% pro-Second Amendment, without any exceptions, and will not support passage of red flag laws. Period.

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

While I have strongly and consistently supported the Clean Power Plan, and continue to do so, I cannot and will not support a proposal for a cap-and-trade system.

I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike.