Legislation Quotes - Page 9

• You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

  Henry Rollins

  Gun, Safe, Want

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• The House okayed the gasoline tax cut, which will increase the deficit, line the pockets of the oil companies, and hurt the environment; Dole said that if there was just some way this could interfere with people's sex lives, it would be perfect legislation.

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, Sex, Cutting

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• All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

  Michael Foot

  Tattoo, War, Wonderful Love

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• Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!

  Mark Mason

  Reading, Engineering, Land

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense.

  Dana Gould

  Gun, Common Sense, Minutes

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• The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation.

  John McCain

  Want, Lasts, Members

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• Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they don't, I will have to introduce legislation that says professional sports will have minimum standards for testing. I'll give them until January, and then I'll introduce legislation.

  John McCain

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Moving, Hero, Glasses

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the Civil Rights movement. Civil Rights legislation was passed by a Republican Congress.

  Rafael Cruz

  Rights, African American, Movement

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I would say to the people of Queensland, and to all listeners around the country, is that if you want stable government in the next term of parliament, it's not just enough to reelect the [Malcolm] Turnbull government. It's also important to elect a senate which will be able to deal with the important reforms, with the important legislation, in a way in which the senate in the last parliament was unable to deal with.

  George Brandis

  Country, Government, People

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• I think we have muddled the terms of marriage, civil partnership, registry office, church etc. I would have liked that to have been clarified. I didn't really like the legislation that was the problem but I absolutely support gay marriage.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Gay, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Dollars, Sanctuary

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• It is well known that homosexuality is a criminal offense in the United States, in four US states. If it is good or bad, we know the decision of the Constitutional Court, but this problem has not been dealt with yet, it is still being addressed by the legislation of the United States. This is not the case in Russia.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Decision, Criminals

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out" by Harrison Koehli, www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

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• We will work in conjunction with the administration, passing legislation, repealing and replacing Obamacare. When that actually takes place, will take some time, and the administration will help determine how we phase one out and replace and phase in its replacement. The reason we`re acting now is because Obamacare is collapsing under its own weight.

  Paul Ryan

  Obamacare, Acting, Weight

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What I always say with these things, when you`re trying to do comprehensive things like tax reform, there will be 20,000 lobbyists in Washington trying to work their will on that piece of legislation so, you know, people think it`s going to be a lot easier than it will end up being.

  John Yarmuth

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for my signature-piece of legislation in the house which was a bill, actually a bill for true civil rights. That there must be no discrimination against anyone on the basis of race in affirmative-action.

  David Duke

  Rights, Race, House

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Intelligent, Restriction, Force

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• Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.

  George W. Bush

  Progress, Troops, Baghdad

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which is in fact routine - it's passed every year - which allows the government to borrow money, otherwise it can't function. If Congress does not approve this budget request, the government may have to default.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Real, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term limits, things like a balanced budget amendment, things like read the bills for goodness sakes, things like that maybe Congress should only pass legislation that they apply to themselves as well.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Thinking, Government

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• I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

  Joe Biden

  Years, Issues, Political

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• Here's a guy [Marco Rubio] - here's a guy that buys a house for $179,000, he sells it to a lobbyist who's probably here for $380,000 and then legislation is passed. You tell me about this guy. This is what we're going to have as president.

  Donald Trump

  House, Guy, President

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

  Dick Cavett

  Language, Sloppy

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.13, Macmillan

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• But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Years, People

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.168, Heinemann

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• What's really important to remember is that this type of legislation exists in one form or another in every other province in the country. The right to refuse unsafe work is a right that is enjoyed by every other farm worker, paid farm worker, in the country and every other paid worker in Alberta.

  Rachel Notley

  Country, Important, Remember

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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