Top 1200 Legislative Branch Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.
What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
Jealousy is a human emotion, regardless of whether you're a Branch Davidian or you're whomever, outside in society.
It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.
Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.
Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.
Through educational programs, community engagement and legislative efforts, players, owners and the NFL are working with law enforcement, advocacy groups and legislators to transform our communities.
Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.
I've always been obsessed with Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Melissa Etheridge.
It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.
Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze,
but as they sway they connect at the roots.
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.
If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.
You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.
Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.
Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.
The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
Lawmakers are scandalized when they see a soldier, but they were not scandalized when gang members entered the Legislative Assembly to negotiate the lives of Salvadorans.
So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation.
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.
I have signed the personhood petition. I have taken the petitions to my church and circulating into my church. And I have a legislative record that backs up my support for life.
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
NPR allowed me to treat sports seriously, as another branch on the tree of culture.
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.
The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin to a zeal for liberty more ardent than enlightened.
Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.
EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.
No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.
There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.
Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.
The Barack who was so successful in Illinois in a Republican-controlled legislative situation for most of his time and who was a very outspoken progressive voice, that's not the man who we ended up having as president.
No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one.
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall,
The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.
A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?
You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.
A true legislative alternative to ObamaCare would support physician ownership of independent medical practices, and preserve local competition between doctors and choice for patients.
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.
