Top 149 Legislator Quotes & Sayings

Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.

Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.

I'm a businessman. I'm a former legislator, and I'm an executive. And I've been very effective in each one of those positions.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

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

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."

Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.

I am the epitome of a citizen legislator.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization, but such leaders appear sporadically, by chance. They do not always appear when they are most needed. The great executives have given inspiration and push to the advancement of human society, but it is the legislator who has given stability and continuity to that slow and painful progress.

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

As a pro-life legislator, I supported the effort in the Louisiana House of Representatives to improve access to quality health care for women by placing realistic regulations on clinics performing abortions.

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.

As a legislator, I was elected to make the tough decisions and produce solutions to the problems facing our country.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

I'm tired but grateful: choosing to blend parenting and public service has made me a more confident mother and a better legislator.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.

My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon's second largest newspaper. He was a pretty amazing guy.

Paul Ryan has been a responsible legislator and public servant, almost alone among members of Congress in his belief that we need to strengthen and save our social entitlements.

I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.

There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of things. We become autonomous only when we obey it, because then our will aligns itself with the objectively valid law, and our choice follows the same law as that we give ourselves. We can think of rational faculty (or the idea - the pure rational concept, not exhibitable in experience) as the legislator or author of the law because reason recognizes an objective standard, and to that extent is already aligned with objective moral truth.

I want to be influential as a legislator.

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

My concept of hitting the ground running and being an effective legislator is to focus on my district and having really good constituent work.

Well, I've been a legislator, and I'm the governor now. When you get in these positions, you've got to be held to a pretty high standard.

No public servant or legislator can claim any privacy to take money for conducting their official functions.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.

I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.

As a California state legislator, I supported our cap-and-trade law to force polluters to pay for releasing harmful greenhouse gases to combat climate change.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.