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Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks. — Rand Paul

Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. — James Burgh

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off. — Charles Krauthammer

The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it. — John Marshall

Legislative blocks are not always simply obstacles to be overcome. — Mariah Zeisberg

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision. — Barber Conable

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. — Barney Frank

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix — Baron De Montesquieu

There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding. — Martin O'Malley

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society. — Warren E. Burger

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions. — William Stanley Jevons

The class war had turned democracy into a contest in legislative looting. — Will Durant

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government. — Todd Akin

We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes. — Edward Snowden

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come. — Nicolas Sarkozy

I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework. — Mohammed Morsi

Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra. — Jon Stewart

Good union leaders make excellent public leaders in the legislative and executive branches. — Robert Kennedy

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so. — Emma Goldman

Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle. — Richard Grasso

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand. — Aristotle.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration. — Valerie Jarrett

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. — John Marshall

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. — Lyn Nofziger

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly — Bhagat Singh

Legislative activity is always best based on care for the people. — Pope Francis

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law. — Mark B. Cohen

solutions are beyond the reach of the electoral process and legislative process. — Charles Murray

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. — Ralph Nader

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. — James Madison

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything. — John Roberts

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion ... — James Madison

I'm running for governor; I'm not running for a legislative office. — Andrew Cuomo

Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority. — Alexander Hamilton

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures. — George J. Mitchell

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. — Bertrand Russell

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed. — Leland Stanford

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. — John Engler

In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty. — Ruhollah Khomeini

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. — Chuck Schumer

I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body. — Dan Webster

Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights. — Robert Dallek

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. — James Madison

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. — Edward Gibbon

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion. — Philip Schaff

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale. — Nick Rahall

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases. — Harry S. Truman

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal. — Richard Dreyfuss

Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful. — Dan Webster

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. — James Buchanan

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement — Herbert Hoover

I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment. — George W. Bush

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached. — Woodrow Wilson

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power. — Millard Fillmore

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission! — Charles Schumer

A legislative entrepreneur ... doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable. — Matt Kibbe