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• Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. While we waste time on stuff like this, genuine legislation to protect life is ignored.

  Justin Amash

  Pro Life, Demand, Stuff

  "Rival’s Ad Hurls Misleading Abortion Attack At Justin Amash" by Eugene Kiely, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2014.

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• We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have multiplied, their ramifications extended, their powers enlarged, and their sphere widened, until the whole system is top-heavy. We are drifting into dangerous and insidious paternalism, submerging the self-reliance of the citizen, and weakening the responsibility and stifling the initiative of the individual. We suffer not from too little legislation but from too much. We need fewer enactments and more repeals.

  Roland H. Hartley

  Responsibility, Agency, Government

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• There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.

  James Madison

  Mean, Hands, Promise

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.37, University of Virginia Press

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• Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Social Values, Desire, Needs

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• I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

  Charles Lichenstein

  Trying, Purpose, United States

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• One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Choices, Nuclear, Honey

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• F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Yield, Order, Southern

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• Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

  Justin Amash

  Names, Organization, Particular

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• As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

  Michael Emerson

  Gun, May, North Carolina

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• In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

  Sandra Fluke

  Rights, Years, Two

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• I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Human Nature, Power Of God

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.400, Mango Media Inc.

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• To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.

  Cleve Jones

  Gay, People, Beverly Hills

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• The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Rights, Firsts, Ada

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• Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Speaks French, People

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• The EU is deeply harmful, it is an anti-democratic monster. I want to prevent it from becoming fatter, from continuing to breathe, from grabbing everything with its paws and from extending its tentacles into all areas of our legislation. In our glorious history, millions have died to ensure that our country remains free. Today, we are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, Determination, Self

  Source: www.eunews.it

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• But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

  Goldwin Smith

  Running, Hype, Mind

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• . . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Broken, Progress

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.

  Michael Badnarik

  Pieces, Aliens, Patriot

  Debate at Cornell University, October 6, 2004.

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• Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of the destruction of states; they have been the ruin of France. Believe me, the evil I denounce is more terrible than the Revolution, more terrible even than The Commune. I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism, and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

  Pope Pius IX

  Believe, Names, Evil

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• The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.

  Jerry Brown

  Struggle, Political, Cost

  "Governor Brown, Senate President pro Tempore and Assembly Speaker Support Raising California’s Minimum Wage". www.gov.ca.gov. September 11, 2013.

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• This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.

  Harry S. Truman

  Law, Justice, Important

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Why can't a democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'the Catcher in the Rye' and 'Harry Potter'?

  Moby

  Children, Gun, Assault Weapons

  "imo". moby.com. December 29, 2002.

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  As long as anti-gay legislation exists in any state, I strongly believe big events such as the Final Four and Super Bowl should not be held in those states' cities.

  Charles Barkley

  Believe, Gay, Cities

  "NBA playoff picture comes into focus" by Hunter Felt, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2015.

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• People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they won’t do it.

  Dylan Ratigan

  America, People, Political

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