(1175 quotes found)
“As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.”
Isabel Paterson
“It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.”
Senator John Kerry
“I believe that we will deeply regret this stampede to pass this legislation and the way in which we have taken all the human rights, religious freedom, right to organize, all of those concerns and we just put them in parenthesis, put them in brackets, as if they don't exist,”
Paul Wellstone
“Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.”
Roland Barthes
“The best way to celebrate Social Security's birthday would be to enact legislation that ensures Americans' hard-earned contributions to Social Security will be dedicated solely to paying Social Security benefits and not used to fund other programs,”
Jim McCrery
“Congressman Blunt sees no problem with being in a different place from the Chamber on this legislation.”
Burson Taylor
“Our children are our greatest resource. Our public policy must reflect our values. That means not just passing legislation to Leave No Child Behind, but funding those programs. Words must be backed by deeds to make sure all America's children - black and white, Latino and Asian have an equal chance to succeed.”
Barbara Mikulski
“It is a very complex and difficult matter to predict. Now the legislation has passed, and we made our best estimate based on the latest economic data available.”
Scott McClellan
“Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.”
Arthur Bryant
“We're trying to do everything we can to ensure that we are in compliance with the federal legislation to have offenders who are on the Ontario registry go onto the national registry.”
Terry Nichols
