Quotes About Legislation

Kashmir aligned with India under certain conditions. Article 35A is part and parcel of this relationship.

Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can't legislate for it.

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.

Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

We need Congress to do more than just engage in partisan games.

At certain moments, both the WEEE Act and the First Step Act appeared doomed to dead end in partisan gridlock and procedural hurdles.

The people of New Jersey sent me to Congress because they are tired of partisan gridlock. They want to see our Congress get to work on legislation that will make people's lives better.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Here's where I'm different from a senator. We pass continuing resolutions. We pass appropriations bills.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

I'm big on this 'no budget, no pay.' I think that's important. Let's get right at the heart of the issue. Even when I was in the state legislature, the most important function we had was to pass the bloody budget.

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

Hostility to the Human Rights Act has been present in sections of the Conservative Party since its enactment, and this has grown more strident with the passage of time, encouraged by some sections of the press.

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach a consensus - not perfect, by any means - but something that we can be proud of, nonetheless.

Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.

I look forward to fighting Nancy Pelosi, and I look forward to defeating Nancy Pelosi in getting the Green New Deal passed.

Despite the fact that important measures such as the Americans with Disabilities Act passed only with crucial Republican support, the public - and the community of disability advocates - normally identifies this issue with the Democratic party.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.