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It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation — Allen West

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership. — Mike Quigley

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen. — Susette La Flesche

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

The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation. — John McCain

Inflation is taxation without legislation — Milton Friedman

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends. — Caitlin Moran

There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda. — Mitt Romney

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it. — Lawrence Lessig

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Live to fight another day on better legislation. — Dana Perino

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests. — Andrew Johnson

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life. — George Will

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment. — Henry Rollins

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality. — Jay Alan Sekulow

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals. — Mike Pence

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. — Jim McGovern

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy. — Jerry Brown

I am for our not having any discrimination in tax legislation. — Angela Merkel

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation. — Jon Meacham

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news. — John F. Kerry

The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration. — M. R. DeHaan

I'll argue to the death against stupid legislation, but some rules exist for a reason. — Alastair Reynolds

My life is too short to focus on legislation when I could be making art. So I'm not a copyright reformer, I'm a copyright abolitionist. — Nina Paley

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. — P. J. O'Rourke

In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy. — Bernie Sanders

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. — Elliott Abrams

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan. — Thomas Sowell

If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail. — Solon

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with. — Stephen R. Covey

India's blood and India's gold was sought and unfortunately given - given to break Turkey and buy the fetters of the Rowlatt legislation. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action. — Carter Heyward

Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior. — Jose Ferreira

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate. — Ted Cruz

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary. — Bernie Sanders

In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else. — Eric Schmidt

I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. — Daniel Radcliffe

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections. — Noam Chomsky

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights. — J.S.B. Morse

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states. — Jose Manuel Barroso

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession. — Henry Clay

Stripe for stripe is human law; "by His stripes we are healed" is superhuman, the result of a legislation as gracious as it is divine. — Horatius Bonar

Obamacare is bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor, and that's what Americans most dislike about this legislation. — Jim Jordan

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation. — Andrew Cuomo

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I don't support any gun control legislation. — Mitt Romney

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries. — Rand Paul

I will always support legislation which respects and values life. — Gresham Barrett

One single object ... [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation. — Thomas Jefferson

I can't go back and change the already done actions but what i can do is to create a new legislation — Ahmed Gamal Abdel Gawad

We can't abolish prejudice through laws ... — Belva Ann Lockwood

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart. — Pat Conroy

the congressional ban on the universal patient identifier the single biggest failure in the history of health IT legislation. — Robert Wachter

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing. — Elinor Glyn

Downright ridiculous legislation (such as laws specifically prohibiting blacks and whites from playing chess together). — Michelle Alexander

I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.' — Gough Whitlam

Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

English restrictive legislation merely hastened the process and inadvertently pushed Americans toward self-sufficiency. At — Robert G. Ahearn

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up. — Alex Pareene

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few. — Rufus King

Within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU. — Jacques Delors

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. — Thomas Jefferson

The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy

I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation. — Shap Smith

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. — Jeremy Bentham

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by. — A.E. Samaan

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. — Max Baucus

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation. — Major Owens

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration. — Theodore Roosevelt

My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued. — Marsha Blackburn

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs. — Ed Pastor

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill. — Michelle Malkin

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time. — Tom Udall

Legislation is the art of compromise. — Harry Reid

Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it. — Sarah Wollaston

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation. — Marion Barry

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things. — John McWhorter

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women. — Warren Farrell

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. — Milton Friedman

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. — Denis Diderot

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. — Tippi Hedren

Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches. — Diane Paulus

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. — William Butler Yeats

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation. — Mahatma Gandhi

The world is not going to be saved by legislation. — William Howard Taft

Lobbying is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. — Ayn Rand

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress. — Marco Rubio

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich. — Bernard Goldberg

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another. — Moses Mendelssohn

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice — Dwight D. Eisenhower

We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation. — Claire McCaskill

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature. — Alan Greenspan

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow — Henry Ford

The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense. — Dana Gould

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care. — Ed Pastor

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. — Robert A. Heinlein

Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward. — Kevin McCarthy

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk. — Hillary Clinton

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label. — George Meany

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote. — Ben Shapiro