Quotes About Legislation

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.

Cuttin' taxes for strippers and thugs.

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.