Quotes About Legislation

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

There ought to be one day — just one — when there is open season on senators.

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

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators.

We have the best Congress money can buy.

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

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Congress didn't vote on the bills, they just wave at them as they go by.

Acts of parliament that are impossible to be performed are of no validity; and if there arise out of them collaterally any absurd consequences, manifestly contradictory to common reason, they are, with regard to those collateral consequences, void.

The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it.