(1175 quotes found)
“This important legislation addresses two harsh realities: an intolerably high percentage of the farm workers who plant and harvest our produce are undocumented - and they are the most poorly paid and poorly treated workers in the United States.”
Howard Berman
“A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.”
Larry Elder
“As a rule of thumb, Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.”
Thomas Sowell
“I think it's important legislation, ... Anything we can do to protect our children and victims of sexual crimes is extremely important in keeping our community safe.”
Jim Anderson
“Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.”
Phyllis Schlafly
“Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur."”
Ambrose Bierce
“REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.”
“After nine legislative sessions full of name-calling, our school funding is in crisis, property taxes are up and judges are having to do our governor's job. We all know that unless we set politics aside we'll never fix what's broke.”
Carole Keeton Strayhorn
“Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”
Denis Diderot
“We support legislation to make price gouging illegal, ... But the devil is in the details, and (our support) would depend on the details.”
Jason Dunn
