Legislation Quotes - Page 22

• As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thumbs, Partisans, Bipartisan

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.334, Hoover Press

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• I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened.

  Mo Udall

  Thinking, Years, Creating

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• There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Two, Sausage, Want

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• Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy...Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God's revealed plan of life.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Philosophy, Acceptance, Joy

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• The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Giving Up, Names, Rights

  "Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem?". www.informationclearinghouse.info. November 9, 2006.

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• Between now and then, after 43 years of European marriage, the whole body of legislation will therefore have to be disentangled. That entails a whole range of specific and very complex questions: what will be the future legal status of the millions of EU citizens in the UK and the millions of Britons on the continent?

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Years, Citizens, Body

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's amazing if you can do that, but for that to be seen as the norm of motherhood, that women are always supposed to give until they're exhausted, you know, to always take on all these burdens - and it's why I'm so, you know, in favor of protecting all of the abortion legislation we've got, to give women the right to go, I can't do that. I can't do it. I'm too tired.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mother, Tired, Giving

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• With a close parliament, if the Government wants to get a good outcome for the nation, they can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation. They can't do that.

  Tony Burke

  Lying, Government, Games

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There are serious budgetry issues that need to be worked through. Playing a game of lying about what's in the content of legislation isn't going to get them anywhere.

  Tony Burke

  Lying, Games, Issues

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.

  Robert Hass

  Land, Imagination, People

  "Robert Hass" by Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.

  Catherine Wilson

  Europe, Punishment, America

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Needs, Negotiation, Globes

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As a senator, I raised the alarm about sub prime mortgages. I fought to hold reckless manufacturers accountable for toxic toys and household products that threaten our kids. I introduced legislation to protect Americans' personal data and combat identity theft. So as president, I will make consumer protection a top priority across the entire government.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kids, Government, Data

  Source: time.com

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• Donald Trump and I would never support legislation that punished women who made the heart-breaking choice to end a pregnancy.

  Mike Pence

  Pregnancy, Heart, Choices

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better life and negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons. Four hundred pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when I was a senator for eight years.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Russia, Eight

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's about making them more available. And that requires Congress passing legislation that will give a real break to the people who want to introduce new technologies to the American marketplace.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Real, Technology

  Source: aalbc.com

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• When you succeed (with legislation), that feeling is exhilaration. And it takes leadership from a president, which means you meet with members of Congress 24/7 and you talk and you listen.

  Dick Gephardt

  Mean, Feelings, President

  Source: patch.com

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• I will work with Congress to introduce a series of legislative reforms and will fight for their passage in the first 100 days of my administration. And this legislation quickly includes Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, Class, Administration

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive order that violates the Constitution. That is, it doesn't matter here what you think about immigration: here you cannot violate the nation's Constitution, period.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Order, Immigration

  Source: www.univision.com

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• I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

  Jamie Dimon

  Thinking, United States, Easier

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• The beauty for Trump is that [Paul] Ryan et. al have worked on all this legislation and he is going to be able to hit the ground running.

  Mary Matalin

  Running, Able, Als

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

  Mary Matalin

  People, Common Sense, Judgment

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs, and hurt our state's economic competitiveness. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I've fought hard to ensure provisions that would defund this harmful power grab were included in the final appropriations bill. I also support legislation to block this harmful rule and protect workers and families from the damaging effects of the Obama Administration's executive overreach and costly energy regulations.

  Roy Blunt

  Hurt, Jobs, Block

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded, undermined, threatened, wanting to have "stand-your-ground" legislation all over the place. It's alarming because at the moment, the fear is outweighing the benefits, and that's partially because the benefits have been so unequally distributed that lots of people don't feel better off. They feel threatened, angry and despairing.

  Duncan Green

  Feel Better, Reality, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Immigration, Reform

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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