Legislation Quotes

As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.

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.

It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in the world to say that you can't do this.

We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows.

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

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see.

Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

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

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

I don't know enough about the legislation , but I think the more information you can put in the hands of the people who are vetting, people who are going to be near children, the better.

Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.

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

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation.

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. While we waste time on stuff like this, genuine legislation to protect life is ignored.

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

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

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.

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

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.

Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.

I don't support any gun-control legislation - the effort for a new assault-weapons ban, with a ban on semiautomatic weapons, is something I would oppose.

There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.

We respect and support the example set by President José Mujica of Uruguay in proposing legislation that regulates the cannabis market

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.

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.

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.

I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation.