Quotes About Legislation

A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites.

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth.

I've always thought that good politics follows from good economics and good policies.

We need to have something that is reworked, that deals with immigration, that is not thinking in terms of policing.

My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.

Immigration policy isn't really what we at HHS do.

I don't want Congress setting monetary policy.

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

We can't let the USMCA become another casualty of political games.

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino gambling money.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

Our aim should be to not allow a single corrupt politician or even a family member to enter the House.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

Year after year, politicians have drafted huge piles of legislation on the assumption that most people are not good. And we know the consequences of that policy: inequality, loneliness and mistrust.