Quotes About Legislation

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before maga­zines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

FACT: Nothing in Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

We will have health care reform in America.

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

I believe in health care reform. I don't believe in the way this bill was passed.

We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.