Legislation Quotes

• Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Kind
  • Religious
  • Intolerance

• In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

  

  David Duke
  • Political
  • Support
  • Position

• Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

  

  George Meany
  • Congress
  • Piece
  • Label

• When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Career
  • Immigration
  • Politician

• We are studying the language in an effort to understand its impact on our existing agreements and consulting with experts for advice concerning its ultimate impact on the future of Major League Baseball in Washington. We are interested in reviewing the analysis of this legislation made by both the (District) Office of the Chief Financial Officer and that made by the Office of the Attorney General prior to reaching our conclusions.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Language
  • Conclusions
  • Attorney

• As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Thumbs
  • Bipartisan
  • Partisans

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

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Government
  • Legislation
  • Oppositions

• Islam Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law.

  

  Abul A'la Maududi
  • God
  • Law
  • Legislation

• A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.

  

  Bernard Goldberg
  • Money
  • Legislation

• In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

  

  Joseph Cannon
  • Legislation
  • Tobacco
  • Swapping

• 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
  • Laws
  • Scriptures

• Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Society
  • Progress
  • Legislation

• It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

  

  Robert Winston
  • Scientific
  • Legislation
  • Keeps

• I'm often at odds with my colleagues, but I've managed to get legislation passed which will not even be attempted in other states. Rather than use the word "cooperate," I'll say there's kind of a peaceful coexistence, a wary watching of each other. I'm very courteous and polite, and people allow me to be. Some people have applied the term charming to me. I don't use that term unless I'm the snake charmer and they're the snake.

  

  Ernie Chambers
  • States
  • Snake
  • Polite

• The clock ticks and time runs out. Our founding fathers wanted to make it hard to pass legislation and it is hard. It's hard to pass legislation for a reason.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Time
  • Clock
  • Founding Fathers

• Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

  

  Saul Williams
  • Song
  • Legislation
  • Riot

• I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

  

  Charles Lichenstein
  • United States
  • Purposes
  • United Nations

• One of the advantages of living in a constitutional federal republic is that we have the ability, if not the duty, as citizens to repair or replace those acts of legislation under which we have agreed to live. We must act when it has become evident that said legislation no longer serves us as a people or advances the principles upon which this nation was founded, one of these being “the pursuit of happiness,” which may only be secured through wealth creation. If it burdens the debt obligation of the government, it cannot be creating wealth. If it does not advance the cause of regaining American competitive dominance in the global marketplace, it is not creating wealth. If legislation and regulation were proposed that taught people how to fish instead of providing fish, then the unemployed would find a way to create jobs for each other. Wealth creation is mankind’s natural objective when given the opportunity. and the tools.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Opportunity
  • Happiness
  • Advantages

• 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
  • Education
  • Crime
  • United States

• 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
  • Governor
  • Attoney General

• 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
  • Organization
  • Activity
  • Legislation

• Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

  

  Joseph Cannon
  • Result
  • Compromise
  • Legislation

• We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Legislation

• It's a slow process, but it is scary, because if someone can control your energy sources, they can control you. We are already being told what light bulbs we can and cannot use...through legislation. We are being forced to fund research into alternative energies sources that are inefficient, and that cause the price of food, energy, and everything else to rise...through legislation...rather than allow free enterprise to allocate funds to those energy sources that will survive through good old American innovation!

  

  Mike Thompson
  • Innovation
  • Enterprise
  • Alternative

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