Top 1200 Legislative Branch Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.

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

There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.

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

One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

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

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

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

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.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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

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

I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.

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

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

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

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.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

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.

As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.

I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.

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

For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation.

so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the same for the women clinging to the branch above the cat. she was the one screaming. The cougar-a ragged-ear old top I clled Marv-just stared at her, like he couldn't believe anyone would be dumb to climb a tree to escape a cat.

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

I love working the legislative process.

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

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

We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks.

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

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

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

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

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

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

In the one branch he most needed

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

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

Most creatures in nature die consciously. Cobras, for instance, choose a particular place on a particular branch of the tree. Many a times, I would try to force-feed them out of my misplaced compassion, but they would just puke and go back to sit on the same branch.

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

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

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

Kotak Mahindra Bank has very significant presence in the West and the North, and our total branch network between these two regions is 80 per cent, and in case of ING Vysya Bank, their network in South is 64 per cent of their total branch network.

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

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

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

Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.

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

In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

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.

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

The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.

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