Quotes About Legislation

A man is merely to implement the law. He is there not to decide what to implement as we already have the law. We don't have a legislative body.

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.

The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code.

Money in politics is a huge issue.

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

I never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money.

We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They've already done it. It's called a nickel.