Quotes About Legislation

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

lawmakers are often lawyers themselves, notoriously bereft of ideas.

If Jack, Frank and Mary are in a loving relationship and were all for marriage equality, then why aren't the three of them covered in SB1? Why can't they get married?

I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

As of 2006, there were still fifty-three countries where a husband could not be prosecuted for the rape of his wife. Even in Germany, rape laws were amended only in 1997 to create a legal category of marital rape.5

Según los legisladores franceses, si un abogado autorizado seguía la liturgia y los rituales adecuados, escribía todos los conjuros y juramentos en un pedazo de papel bellamente decorado, y añadía su adornada rúbrica al final del documento, entonces (¡abracadabra!) se constituía legalmente una nueva compañía. Cuando

Finally, in 1880, the British government took the unprecedented step of legislating that all timetables in Britain must follow Greenwich. For the first time in history, a country adopted a national time and obliged its population to live according to an artificial clock rather than local ones or sunrise-to-sunset cycles.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

Congress decided to finish the already drawn-out process of investigating

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

We need to fix our legal immigration system.

It was added that the "true intent and meaning" of the act was "not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.

RBG: I should define the term activism as I used it for that purpose. It is a court that is not at all hesitant to overturn legislation passed by the Congress

When Congress passes new emission standards, we hire 50 more engineers and GM hires 50 more lawyers.