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Quotes about Legislation

The law is sic a ass - a idiot.
- Charles Dickens
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
- Paul Ricoeur
In addition to sponsoring the Defend Israel Act, I am a proud co-sponsor of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which will protect the state of Israel from politically motivated attacks in the United Nations and economic discrimination here in the United States.
- Jacky Rosen
Our present condition, is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect Independance contending for dependance.
- Thomas Paine
Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
- Ted Deutch
The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.
- Joe Biden
Folks, we want to end Obamacare. We want to go to a plan that is so much better and so much less expensive, right?
- Donald Trump
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
- Tony Campolo
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
- Thomas Jefferson
What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
- William Howard Taft
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more laws, the less justice.
- Cicero