Legislature famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.
-- Ann Kirkpatrick -
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
-- David Ricardo -
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
-- Diane Ravitch -
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
-- Ed Koch -
But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.
-- George Pataki -
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.
-- J. William Fulbright -
[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.
-- James Madison -
Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.
-- James Otis -
When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
-- John Adams -
A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.
-- John Bercow -
The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.
-- Judy Martz -
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 -
I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.
-- Samuel Chase -
I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.
-- Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. -
I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.
-- Sarah Palin -
In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.
-- Susana Martinez -
No state legislature ever built a great university.
-- James E. Rogers, Jr. -
The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.
-- Rufus King
