Quotes About Legislation

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Big Cabinet meeting on our program through Justice dept. to wipe out legal discriminations against women. We've changed 27 laws, have 60 more in process & today approved some more.

The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.

A rebuke to Cong. "How could it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing & talk by the hour.

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Absolute excellence is rarely to be found in any legislation.

nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation; manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

It is above all the children already born that have a right to life—a right to coexistence with adults in a world in which, with or without the help of the church, violence against children has been unequivocally outlawed. Until such legislation exists, talk of the right to life remains not only a mockery of humanity but a contribution to its destruction.

Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

Things got so bad that Georgia lawmakers introduced legislation to move the state border north- to seize land that had been in Tennessee since 1818- all to capture a river. The governor turned to Plan B: a miracle. "O, Father, we acknowledge our wastefulness," Sonny Perdue prayed on the steps of the Georgia state capitol in front of a crowd of about a hundred people.

We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.

The war on drugs makes it almost impossible for drug users to get milder forms of their drug—and it pushes them inexorably toward harder drugs.

I will always support legislation which respects and values life.

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.

and from the enactment in 1890 of the Sherman Act, the first of the great federal antitrust statutes. And