Quotes About Legislation

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres.

Just twelve years after the last major legislation of the Great Society—the Fair Housing Act of 1968—aimed, however clumsily, at addressing inequalities produced by generations of racist policies, the country elected a president whose charge was to dismantle it all.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.

Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

He wants a Bill of Rights for Britain drafted by a Committee of Lawyers. Have you ever tried drafting anything with a Committee of Lawyers?

Then his colleague Pedius won approval for a bill that made Caesar's killing a crime

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

It is both impractical and very harmful for each state to enact differing and conflicting privacy burdens on broadband providers, many of which serve multiple states, if not the entire country.

Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

It was in the best interests of Zavala and other counties that we move forward with a farm bill and provide certainty to ranchers, farmers, food banks, and other providers.

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

If you read the Senate rules, there are provisions where the Senate parliamentarian can be overridden.

The few effective provisions of Dodd-Frank are masked by its many flaws - flaws that have been and will continue to be detrimental to the American economy and our financial future if not reversed.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

The Great American Outdoors Act is landmark conservation legislation to protect our public lands, including right here in New Jersey.

Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

Broken families not only affect the people involved, but they have an impact on public policy decisions in Washington, D.C., and state capitols around the nation.

I'll go to my grave saying a gimmick is not good public policy.