Quotes About Legislation

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

Every time the word 'breastfeeding' is mentioned, there's a snicker on the House floor. This has been happening since the dawn of creation. Can we finally get a grip on it?

Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to other, more just legislation.

Ogni legge trasgredita troppo spesso è cattiva; spetta al legislatore abrogarla o emendarla, per impedire che il dispregio in cui è caduta quella stolta ordinanza si estenda ad altre leggi più giuste.

Our government has become a system of legalized bribery

Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a formal embodiment of a moral code, not as a free-standing substitute for it.