Top 436 Legislative Quotes & Sayings

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate.

The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.

Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.

All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.

The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

Donald Trump, despite his campaign promises, this is not a guy who is going to be willing to send executive power that belongs to the legislative branch back to the legislative branch. I mean, Donald Trump is going to try to amass and consolidate power, given that he's an authoritarian.

I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

My name is Kevin de Leon, and I am the president of the most progressive legislative house in America.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the planet in some potentially adverse way, and it may be that governments have done too little to address it. It is not a problem, however, that has escaped the attention of policymakers in the Executive and Legislative Branches of our Government, who continue to consider regulatory, legislative, and treaty-based means of addressing global climate change.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory.

Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up and fight back like Obamacare - both the abominable legislative monstrosity itself and the tyrannical, corrupt manner by which Obama crammed it through the legislative process.

The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.

I hope that the American public understands that we have three levels of government. We have the (unintelligible) the executive, but there's legislative and the judicial, and the legislative obviously need to be just doing their job.

Legislative activity is always best based on care for the people.

The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.

I love working the legislative process.

What has Dianne Feinstein done... I'll put my legislative background up against hers any day.

Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

Listening to the people I serve is a critical component of any legislative effort.

Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

I've been ostracized before in legislative bodies for voting against the majority. That doesn't bother me.

The art of negotiating is a learned skill. It is practiced and often honed in the marketplace as well as legislative bodies.

Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.

Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three great provinces the legislative, executive, and judiciary; or even the privileges and powers of the different legislative branches.

There's a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.

I think there's a short-term legislative strategy. I think there's a longer-term legislative strategy in terms of enshrining net neutrality principles into law rather than a rule, and I think there's an election strategy.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.

There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.