Legislation Quotes - Page 2

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

Andrzej Wajda

Movie, Europe, Actors

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Denis Diderot

Country, Europe, Government

"Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

Alice Hamilton

Illinois, Occupation, Disease

Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

Tony Campolo

Thinking, Abortion, Moral

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The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

John Conyers

Years, Opposites, Pell Grants

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The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

Bill McCollum

Night, House, Reform

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All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

Elinor Glyn

Kissing, World, Abolish

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New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

Carol Bellamy

Children, Organization, Child Labor

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And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.

Daryl Hannah

Issues, Done, Sides

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The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

John Sweeney

Pay, Administration, Workers

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I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

Kinky Friedman

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As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

Isabel Paterson

Law, Freak, Stand Alone

Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Educational, Hands, People

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

Major Owens

People, Results

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Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.

Carl Menger

Money, Independent, Power

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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Walter Lippmann

Country, Depressing, Mean

Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

Rahm Emanuel

America, Comforting, Mind

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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

Major Owens

Mean, Thinking, Long

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Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

Sherwood Boehlert

Oil, Giving, Environmental

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People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Government, Land, Knowing

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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Ronald Reagan

Funny, Humor, Russia

Remarks during radio microphone test, 11 Aug. 1984

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When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

Doug Ose

Trying, Way, Accomplish

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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Milton Friedman

Business, Political, Taxation

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The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

Andrzej Wajda

Movie, Would Be, Actors

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We can't abolish prejudice through laws.

Belva Ann Lockwood

Law, Prejudice, Abolish

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