Legislation Quotes
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Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.
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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.
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We support common-sense legislation that keeps guns out of the hands of unsupervised children.
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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.
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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
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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.
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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.
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In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.
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A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.
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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.
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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.
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As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.
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Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
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Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.
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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!
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We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
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Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.
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It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.
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I think most politicians think most musicians are drug addicts or ‘not an exemplary part of society, so why should they worry about putting in legislation to help that industry when they can help another industry? So, I don’t think there’s a way out, the worst thing that ever happened was the invention of the CD, because a CD is an exact copy of a master recording!
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There are people who have been touched by, let’s call it for the sake of argument, magic to the point where they’re no longer entirely people even under human rights legislation. Nightingale calls them the fae but that’s a catch-all term like the way the Greeks used the word “barbarian” or the Daily Mail uses “Europe.”
