Legislation Quotes - Page 14

• There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

  Ellen MacArthur

  Taken, Opportunity, Government

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• Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.151, Vintage

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• A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

  George Will

  Mean, Quality, Increase

  "The Gift Of Doing Very Little". www.washingtonpost.com. December 23, 2007.

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• The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.

  Ronald Reagan

  Risk, Damage, Serious

  Letter to Majority Leader Howard Baker, November 16, 1983.

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• The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Self, Community

  "Society and Civilization". American Review, July 1845.

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• Parliament has become so undermined it is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it. A glaring example is the budget bill, where there was no thoughtful debate or scrutiny of the legislation.

  Sheila Fraser

  Jobs, Thoughtful, People

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• The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, People, Sound

  William Jennings Bryan (1896). “The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896”

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• I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Marijuana, Law, Doctors

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• There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage. Legislation is required to establish the reform. No proper legislation is to be expected as long as members of Congress are engaged in procuring offices for their constituents.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Government, Long, Office

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, February 14, 1879.

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• Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

  Joseph Gurney Cannon

  Compromise, Results

  The Sun, March 4, 1923.

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• In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

  Joseph Gurney Cannon

  Swapping, Lines, Tobacco

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations" by Library of Congress, 1989.

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• It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.

  Learned Hand

  Facts, Kind, Court

  Letter to Louis D. Brandeis, January 22, 1919.

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• Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Intelligent, Matter

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.109, SIU Press

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• I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.

  Enoch Powell

  Queens, Men, Justice

  Speech in Ilford (13 March 1982), from Simon Heffer, "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell", p. 853, 1999.

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• Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Law, Sitting Down

  "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health". Book by L. Ron Hubbard. 1987 Edition, p. 226,

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• Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Form, Harassment

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they'd be laughed out of the company.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Asking, Unfair

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.

  Jesse Helms

  Country, Hate, School

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• [Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the country and then to allow the products of other countries which are not surrounded by any similar legislation, which are free from any similar cost and expenditure freely to enter our country in competition with our own goods...If these foreign goods come in cheaper, one of two things must follow...either you will take lower wages or you will lose your work.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Country, Two, Competition

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• We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.

  Arlen Specter

  Views, President, United States

  «Bush meets with the Iraqi PM as some in Congress question alliance» by Mark Preston, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2006.

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• Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, Believe, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  People, Quality, Three

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.

  Eric Schmidt

  Country, Adults, Pornography

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Punishment, Favors, Shields

  Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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• I think the knowledge about how legislation really affects small businesses is extremely valuable. If you haven't run a small business, then you don't have this kind of knowledge about how a regulation passed or taxes increased affects your bottom line. If you recognize that every new regulation takes that much more time to comply with, requires that many more employees, then it really gives you that foundational basis to make those decisions.

  Kristi Noem

  Running, Thinking, Giving

  "Rep. Kristi Noem: Head of the Class". Interview with Emily Miller, humanevents.com. February 14, 2011.

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