Quotes About Legislation

Common sense often makes good law.

What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?

What kind of government is this? It's getting more like California all the time.

Even the streamlined patent-reform bill before the Senate is significantly controversial. Some estimate the reform could create as many as 2 million jobs, but when you look under the covers, there does not appear to be any support for this. And small businesses, corporations, and individual inventors are significantly opposed."

This legislation will end the tsunami of false marking lawsuits, according to many experts. It's a win for all corporations that make products. It's a win for the American economy."

Facebook and Twitter, online petitions, comments sent from apps such as Countable, and boilerplate emails that come from advocacy-group websites. Don't waste your time. Congresspeople don't trust these channels; they're too easy to hack, game, or blast out en masse.

As soon as Congress does whatever it's going to do, and the U.S. doesn't go bankrupt, I think the market opens back up again.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

I voted against H.R. 1119, which would weaken emissions standards for coal refuse power plants.

As congressional Republicans and the Trump administration continue to attack the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it came as no surprise that the House voted on two bills that would weaken emissions standards and, as a result, put our public health at risk.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

I have and will continue to be an advocate for the important role the CFPB plays in our economy. In fact, I have voted overwhelmingly against legislation that would weaken, defund, or eliminate the agency.

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

In 1993, as House Democratic Leader, I led the fight to pass the Clinton-Gore economic plan - a plan designed to slash the deficit, invest in education, cut taxes for working families, and ask the wealthy among us to pay their fair share... Not one Republican voted for that plan. They said it was a job killer.

There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.

I hope that the entire Senate votes to say that if you're on the terrorist watch list - not just the no-fly list, which is a much more targeted list, but the terrorist watch list - you should not be able to buy a weapon.