Quotes About Legislation

I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor; I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.

Make no mistake: Obamacare is a pro-death 'health' program.

Before coming to Congress, I worked as a computer programmer and a systems analyst.

The way our federal agencies are funded, the way the authorizing of these programs are done, I think needs to be completely revamped.

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

The only way I can get progressive things done is working with Republicans.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.

Just two words are enough to drive away the DMK members from the House. They are running away at the mention of 'Katchatheevu' or 'prohibition.'

Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

We promised the Accountability Act, we delivered the Accountability Act.

We have promised to do better, and no Republican concern should ever be enough to filibuster our own bill.

I promised to advocate for policies that are pro-growth, pro-worker, and pro-American when I came to Congress.

We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.

My administration is committed to advocating for policies that promote New Hampshire's seniors and their caregivers.

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

We don't spend money properly in Washington, D.C. We jump these massive bills to massive bills.

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

The Affordable Care Act is a public-policy flop of epic proportions.