Top 312 Legislature Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.
Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature.
I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be.
I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.
It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign.
The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.
When I was in the legislature, we worked to create a bipartisan plan to raise teacher pay to the national average.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.
No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels.
I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Veterans' issues were always a priority in my work in the legislature and continue to be now as governor.
Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.
Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed
I have confidence in the responsibility of those who occupy a seat in the legislature.
How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
Battles in the Legislature can be tough.
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.
I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.
We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.
In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.
A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.
Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.
The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.
If all the Legislature wants to do is turn their back on students and teachers then West Virginia will stay stuck at the bottom.
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.
You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.
There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.
The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.
A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.
The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.
The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.
No state legislature ever built a great university.
I am very grateful to the MLAs for unanimously electing me as the BJD legislature party leader.
Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip.
Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.
Democrats, folks, only have five states where they have the governorship and the state legislature.
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.
Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.
Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.
