Quotes About Legislation

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

Alabama seniors all across the Third Congressional District continue facing high drug costs.

Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.

America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it.

Regulatory reform is my agenda. I intend to thoroughly work on this.

I'm in favor of improving our bridges and roads, and am willing to work with our Democratic colleagues on a thoughtful and targeted approach.

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

Laws cannot make men good: that is the work of the Holy Spirit. But laws can prevent men from doing evil.

Socialism is a product of humanism, because humanism claims the right to legislate at will, and thereby to define sin at will.

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.

Under the 1799 and 1800 (anti-)Combination Acts, workers forming illegal combinations could be summarily gaoled for three months, after appearing before only one magistrate.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.

Magistratum legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum

How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology caught up?

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.