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Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty. -- Jan C. Ting
Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax. -- Michael Steele
States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live. -- George W. Bush
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
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'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow. -- Nellie Bly
We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world. -- Bill Shuster
We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home. -- Ruben Hinojosa
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects. -- Solomon Ortiz
The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets. -- Cynthia P. Schneider
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them. -- Barney Frank
Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. -- John Rawls
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints. -- John Coleman
Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer. -- Jim Yong Kim
Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change. -- Mark McKinnon
It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote. -- Al Sharpton
A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year. -- Paul Ryan
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? -- Rahm Emanuel
Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact. -- Ray Comfort
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. -- Baron de Montesquieu
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. -- Antonin Scalia
The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head. -- Randeep Hooda
One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.' -- Jeff Greenfield
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right. -- Bob Barr
Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.' -- Eliot Spitzer
Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama. -- Mark Rothko
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. -- Allen Tucker
Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact. -- Robert M. Hensel
Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it. -- Lauren Oliver
Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming. -- Li-Young Lee
It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have. -- Blanche Lincoln
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. -- George Santayana
The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now. -- Alan Hirsch
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us. -- Lyman Beecher
It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes. -- Chelsea Handler
If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient." -- Gore Vidal
Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact. -- Richard Mentor Johnson
I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that. -- Jon Stewart
To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven. -- Thomas S. Monson
So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills. -- Nan Hayworth
Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth. -- Edmund Phelps
'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth. -- Edmund Phelps
School choice is one of the strongest ways we have to educate our children, .. believes in school choice and he is going to work hard to enact school choice. -- Ari Fleischer
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves. -- Catharine Beecher
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play. -- George V. Higgins
Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress? -- Noam Chomsky
We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences. -- Simone de Beauvoir
It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power. -- Black Elk
Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here. -- John Glenn
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture. -- Steven Pressfield
As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families. -- Robert Simonds
Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only. -- Philip Roth
There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas. -- Cornel West
I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen. -- Denis Kearney
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints." -- John Coleman

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