Legislation Quotes - Page 9

• Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

  Fred Reed

  Law, America, Machines

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• RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall responsibility for its conduct, and especially the obligation to ensure that its programmes do not offend against the public interest or conflict with national policy as defined in legislation. To this extent the government rejected the view that RTE should be, either generally or in regard to its current affairs programmes, completely independent of government supervision.

  Sean Lemass

  Independent, Responsibility, 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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• The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

  A. V. Dicey

  Mean, Law, Principles

  "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.

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• I did sit down with Jared Polis (D-CO), and we had a good discussion about having the LGBT [Equality] Caucus pool some money and perhaps hire a staffer like some of the other caucuses do. That way we could hopefully be even more proactive on issues like ENDA, student non-discrimination and some of the other bills that are out thereit’s just a matter of now figuring out — having seven of us total — how can we best move those forward either through legislation and working with the president to issue orders.

  Mark Pocan

  Moving, Order, Issues

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• We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

  Russ Feingold

  Issues, Doors, Special

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• The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ideas, Political, Would Be

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• I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know thats not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.

  Robert Gibbs

  Teacher, Views, Yesterday

  "Robert Gibbs Clarifies “Professional Left” Criticism, Calls Initial Comments Inartful" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2010.

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• The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood.

  James Henry Hammond

  War, Taken, Home

  James Henry Hammond (1836). “Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia”, p.12

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• I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result

  Carl Levin

  Supportive, Bills, Path

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• Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Accounts, Opposition

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Two, Body

  "Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 9, 1961.

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• Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Numbers, Fire, Forests

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• As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.

  Abraham Foxman

  Hate, Thinking, Progress

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• The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington.

  Jerry Springer

  America, Issues, Political

  "Democratic Veteran". Interview with Jo Fish, June 23, 2003.

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• For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

  Mary Bono

  Years, Fcc, Asking

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• There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.

  Rob Woodall

  Support, Pieces, Benefits

  "Rob Woodall Won’t Give Up Government Health Care ‘Because It’s Free’" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• If you have laws and legislation that ban certain things based on the principles of the Scriptures and based on your Christian background, then let it stand there. Who is having big debates with the Islamic people about it (gay rights)? Who is telling them to bend their laws? If your laws are based on your Christian points of view, then you must stand your ground?

  Bishop Noel Jones

  Christian, Islamic, Gay

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• Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a "patients’ rights" label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.

  Ron Paul

  Rights, Government, Medicine

  "Bill Of Rights . . . Or Federal Takeover Of Medicine?". www.heartland.org. August 1, 2001.

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• All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Taken, Men

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.161, Penguin

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• Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Opportunity, Law, Employment

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• REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Popular Vote, Law

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.195, University of Georgia Press

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• I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Block, Doubt, Permit

  Letter to Samuel B. Hill (chairman of House Ways and Means Committee), 6 July 1935

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• The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.

  Shannon O'Brien

  Cancer, Brain, Needs

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