Quotes about Legislation

This word is composed of jus and dictio, juris dictio or a speaking and pronouncing of the law.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Every day, I talk to Democratic and Republican colleagues with lots of ideas about the work we should be doing.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

I've endorsed 'Medicare for All' at the federal level. I do not believe a state can accomplish that on its own.

A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

The Council of Nicæa. An ecumenical council was a new experiment. Local councils had long since grown to be a recognised organ of the Church both for legislation and for judicial proceedings. But no precedent as yet prescribed, no ecclesiastical law or theological principle had as yet enthroned, the 'General Council' as the supreme expression of the Church's mind.

As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'

Jesus worked by changing the heart, not by legislating. Legislation can only force compliance. It can never produce the love necessary to change an attitude. Jesus

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow