“ We're seeing the legislative process go down in this Senate. ”
- Robert Byrd- Copy
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“ A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites. ”
- Hilary Rosen- Copy
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“ They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government. ”
- Henry Knox- Copy
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“ The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America. ”
- Roy Wilkins- Copy
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“ Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year. ”
- Robert Quillen- Copy
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“ How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? ”
- Kinky Friedman- Copy
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“ We will be present in the next legislature and all legislatures after that fighting for more funding for UK. ”
- Charles Wells- Copy
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“ The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect. ”
- Henry Knox- Copy
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“ I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action. ”
- Jodi Rell- Copy
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“ Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. The sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. ”
- Carl Menger- Copy
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“ This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ”
- Barney Frank- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ If the rights of the minority are to be preserved, if the Senate is to be preserved as the greatest of parliamentary bodies, it would take at least six Republicans standing up for fairness and checks and balances. ”
- Harry Reid- Copy
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“ By providing this draft legislation to the Senate and the House of Representatives, the administration has taken the first step in initiating the congressional review of the US-Indian Civilian Nuclear Agreement. ”
- Richard Lugar- Copy
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“ Congress does not have contingency plans,... The Senate can be replaced quickly by gubernatorial appointment, but the House cannot be. And in a bicameral body, what does the Senate do without a House? ”
- Brian Baird- Copy
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“ From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted. ”
- Russ Feingold- Copy
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“ Just as is happening in many other places in the world now, as there has been a rash of decisions in other countries, either legislative or judicial, validating same-gender marriages, I think that the time will come in Hawaii. ”
- Ed Case- Copy
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“ Our recent legislative sessions had everything a good reporter could wish for: A willful governor, an angry and divided legislature, citizens who know how to use their car horns. Plenty of conflict. Plenty of personalities. As journalists, I'm sure it was a fascinating scene to watch unfold. ”
- Phil Bredesen- Copy
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“ Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities. ”
- Daniel Akaka- Copy
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“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”
- Elliot Richardson- Copy
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“ Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice… ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political — legislative and administrative — decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. ”
- Joseph A. Schumpeter- Copy
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“ Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic Church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change… ”
- Robin Morgan- Copy
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