Quotes About Legislation

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

The business of government is justice.

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.

Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

Obamacare is not about health care. Obamacare is about the expansion of government and the total loss of freedom.

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.