Top 1200 Legislative Branch Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

Americans firmly rejected Republican legislative efforts to repeal the ACA - only 17 percent supported it.

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

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

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

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

I definitely want to branch into television and mainstream.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in name only.

Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

I just want to be on my own branch twittering.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority.

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

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

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly

Fiction is a branch of neurology

The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening

I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

It is incumbent upon the Aghsan, the Afnan and My kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most Mighty Branch. Consider that which We have revealed in Our Most Holy Book: 'When the ocean of My presence hath ebbed and the Book of My Revelation is ended, turn your faces toward Him Whom God hath purposed, Who hath branched from this Ancient Root.' The object of this sacred verse is none other except the Most Mighty Branch (Abdu'l-Baha). Thus have We graciously revealed unto you our potent Will, and I am verily the Gracious, the All-Powerful.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.

I've been very thankful in my state legislative career to have gotten support from both the MPAA and various movie studios.

Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.

The House of Representatives provides a special, nonpartisan staff of lawyers, called Legislative Counsel, who are experts in various areas of the law.

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

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.

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

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

It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.

One of the worst facets of partisan policymaking is when common-sense reforms are sandwiched between a left-wing legislative wish list.

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, territorial, and budget sovereignty.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.

The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

Bringing in timely laws that are the need of the hour requires nimbleness to get through the necessary legislative processes.

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.