Quotes about Legislation

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.

Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

Let's face it. Our ass is in a crack. We're gonna have to let this nigger bill pass. [Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957]

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

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.

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. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation