Quotes about Legislation

It wouldn't be entirely clear to him until 1787, but in the meantime, as a first step in the right direction, Wilberforce championed two bills, both of which failed. One was for parliamentary reform and the other was a strange and ghoulish bill combining two macabre issues: putting an end to the burning of women at the stake, and selling the corpses of hanged criminals for dissection.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

We have a bipartisan congressional task force against anti-Semitism, that's fantastic.

We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

The years have passed, and most of the legislation called for by those workers is on the books now. I wonder how many realize just how much they owe the hunger marchers, who endured fast and cold, who were like the Son of Man, when He said, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.