Legislature Quotes

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular States.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to the state legislatures.

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic - it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.

It is rare that a legislature reasons.
It is too quickly impassioned.

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

No state legislature ever built a great university.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

Democrats, folks, only have five states where they have the governorship and the state legislature.

Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign.

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.