Quotes About Legislation

Goldwater was, in other words, a candidate for voters in Boston as much as those in Birmingham—catering to white voters who were against the idea of federal civil rights legislation but at the same time desperate to receive assurances that this didn't make them bad people.

We came when a lot of other Asian people came, after the law changed." "I remember that," I say. And I do, more or less. I remember Kennedy talking about the need for it—calling the old system of racist quotas intolerable—though it was Johnson who finally signed it.

I'm sure, sir, there are all kinds of ethical issues. But in the end, it's for legislators to decide how these things get regulated, not people like me. For now, I just want to learn as much as I can, so I can take my understanding to the next level.

El primer asunto que debían tratar cuando se iniciara la sesión esa tarde era la Ley de Habilitación, que permitiría que el gabinete de Hitler pudiera aprobar leyes sin el permiso del Reichstag.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

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

There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.