Quotes About Legislation

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.