Quotes About Legislation

The breakdown of the wall separating marriage from nonmarriage has been described by some legal historians and sociologists as the deinstitutionalization or delegalization of marriage or even, with a French twist, as demariage. I like historian Nancy Cott's observation that it is akin to what happened in Europe and America when legislators disestablished their state religion.

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

This bureaucracy had been created after 9/11 because of political

It wasn't until 1911 that California joined forty-five other states in restricting recreational cocaine

abortion had been outlawed throughout the United States, starting in Connecticut in 1821, in California in 1872, and in all states by 1880

AFEW YEARS AGO the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved goldfish bowls. The measure's sponsor explained the measure in part by saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

Legislation was passed that seemed to welcome any surviving Armenians back to their homes, and at least on paper, Christians and Jews were to be treated like any other citizens in Turkey. But this was a very cold and toxic embrace. The Turkish government was no longer engaged in an organized system of deportation, but with Kemal's endorsement, the ethnic cleansing of Anatolia would continue.

We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.

Article IV, Section 3 of the United States Constitution requires the consent of a state before a new state can be formed from its territory.

You have to be intrinsically changed by God in order for justice to be done. In other words, justice doesn't come by legislation, because you can legislate things and nothing changes. We can go to the executive branch. We can go to the legislative branch. We can go to the judicial branch. We can put whatever kind of Supreme Court justices we want to put in place. But at the end of the day legislation doesn't change hearts … only the gospel does.

Some problems cannot be cured through legislation. But they must be attended to nonetheless. And here's the problem: The less the culture attends to these things, the more the government will attend to them and the less freedom there will be.

Wilberforce understood the idea that the law itself is a "teacher" and will lead people toward what it prescribes and away from what it prohibits. But he knew that a debased culture cannot be stemmed through legislation alone. Indeed, if one wishes to make certain laws, one must change the culture first, else those laws will never be passed. In

structure of the social division of labor. Many firms and industries must make fundamental changes to long-held business models in order to adapt. Further, governmental policy and legislation sometimes preferentially supports innovation by manufacturers. Considerations of social welfare suggest that this must change. The workings of the intellectual property system are of special concern. But despite the difficulties, a

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

We need laws that protect everyone. Men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion... ah, persuasion.

If there were not laws against it; 9 of 10 men would be potential suicides

In a perfect world the current laws would not apply.

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

That's why I often said that monetary policy was not a panacea—we needed Congress to do its part. After

Congress opted for budget cuts and tax increases.

Banks have spent hundreds of millions of dollars complying with the new rules and are not looking for a rollback.