(226 quotes found)
“I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.”
Will Rogers
“If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.”
William Blackstone
“Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign, ... I think we've got a real, real shot.”
Kinky Friedman
“I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world”
Mark Twain
“Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments”
Charles Dudley Warner
“He said if the legislature doesn't do certain things, he's going to take the issues to a referendum, ... Then he has to follow through.”
Arnold Steinberg
“We go through this every year with the Legislature, and we have to wait to see what we are going to do. We can make all the plans in the world but unless we know what the Legislature is going to do, it doesn't mean anything.”
Annette Singletary
“I can't imagine that someone in the state legislature has a better idea of how we should be doing our jobs.”
Andrew Metrick
“I think the Legislature recognized that it had to do something with levee boards, and I think they kind of left the other out there to dry. I think there's a lot of support for those things, but I just don't think there's any enthusiasm inside of the Legislature.”
Barry Erwin
“In all the years I was in the legislature -- and I'll swear this on a stack of Bibles -- he never asked me to do anything or vote in a particular way, other than he always wants us to build more roads in the mountains.”
Attorney General Greg Stumbo
