Legislators Quotes

Legislators Quote of the day

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

People have a deep need to be legislators, and the idea of autonomy has become very precious.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges.

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.

People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen legislators.

Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.

Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.

The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.

Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.

We had a lot of people say, you guys are the most ineffective legislators in Olympia and your bills never go anywhere ... They can't say that anymore, can they?

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against a class of people.

Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.

Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.