Top 149 Legislate Quotes & Sayings

You can’t really legislate for the decisions that your heart makes.

You can't legislate good taste.

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The DEMOCRATIC idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

You cannot legislate an attitude.

You can legislate many conditions-but you cannot legislate harmony into the hearts of men. To attain industrial peace, we need more than by-laws and compulsory rules.

I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power.

The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's a restriction. By which I mean it doesn't say Congress can legislate for the general welfare, it means that everything Congress must do has to enhance the general welfare of the United States of America. It can't grant things to individuals, it can only legislate for the government.

In Washington you legislate, but at home you touch people's lives; that's what I try to do when I go there.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done.

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

Economists may not know much. But we know one thing very well: how to produce surpluses and shortages. Do you want a surplus? Have the government legislate a minimum price that is above the price that would otherwise prevail. That is what we have done at one time or another to produce surpluses of wheat, of sugar, of butter, of many other commodities. Do you want a shortage? Have the government legislate a maximum price that is below the price that would otherwise prevail.

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

We cannot afford to go backwards on our reproductive rights, we must legislate love, we must legislate justice for Black girls and non-binary folks and guarantee reproductive rights for everyone.

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. Nor can we legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.

We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

You can't legislate stupidity.

You can't legislate morality.

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

You can't legislate against stupidity.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

I think all we should legislate is morality.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

If other managers are going to say things I can't legislate for that, that's their opinions.

If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage. It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.

We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

You can't legislate sobriety.

The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.

I can't legislate a song into being, it just will not happen for me.

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.

You can't actually legislate what goes on in people's minds and their attitudes, but you certainly can legislate for parity where pay and salaries are concerned.

Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.

I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.

We can't legislate human nature.

I've made it pretty clear that I can't legislate or dictate proper behavior. You can't. You do everything that you can.