Legislation Quotes - Page 6

• I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Government, Political

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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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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• 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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• I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Moving, Believe, Bills

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• Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.

  John Hoeven

  Strong, Support, President

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Administration

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.90, Cornell University Press

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• Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Issues, Addresses, Responsible

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• 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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• I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Party, Thinking, Organization

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't think that I need to tell you how important to the outcome of that race is the education legislation that is now before the Congress. I hope that it is important enough that most of you have studied it in detail. I hope that you understand that it represents the very best thinking that the leading educators of this country can produce.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Country, Thinking

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.226, Best Books on

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