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Inflation is taxation without legislation. -- Milton Friedman
A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. -- Larry Elder
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. -- Thomas Reed
It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890. -- Charles Tupper
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 good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' -- Barack Obama
Legislation is the art of compromise. -- Harry Reid
Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society. -- Abraham Lincoln
Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law. -- Arun Jaitley
Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. -- Elliott Abrams
Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it. -- Lawrence Lessig
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair. -- Saul Williams
Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own. -- Myrtle Reed
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies. -- John Dewey
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
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
Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional. -- Justin Amash
Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work. -- Susan Rice
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. -- Thomas Paine
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation -- Jeremy Bentham
The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover's aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover -- Rexford Tugwell
Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends. -- Leland Stanford
Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America. -- Jeff Denham
Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world. -- Chris Chocola
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. -- Roger Wicker
People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have clashed and contended with each other, till one or the other has gained the supremacy. -- James Madison
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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another. -- Moses Mendelssohn
All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing. -- Elinor Glyn
People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation. -- Major Owens
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation. -- Dick Cavett
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. -- Milton Friedman
Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. -- Tippi Hedren
The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers. -- John Sweeney
It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals. -- Mike Pence
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The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness. -- Thomas Francis Meagher
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. -- Ronald Reagan
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
For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill. -- Mike Pence
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. -- Phyllis Schlafly
We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy. -- Bulent Ecevit
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. -- Jim Ramstad
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That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children. -- Rocco Buttiglione
It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power. -- Major Owens
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation. -- Daryl Hannah
In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries. -- Jerry Costello
I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here. -- Madeleine Albright
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. -- John Podhoretz
Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified. -- Ted Danson
I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. -- Julian Assange
Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts. -- Bobby Seale
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation. -- Andrew Weil
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. -- Andrew Jackson
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote. -- Bayard Rustin
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. -- Elihu Root
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. -- Bill Johnson
What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. -- Jeff Goodell
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In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile. -- Colm Toibin
I'll sign anything except bad legislation. -- Kinky Friedman
I don't support any gun control legislation. -- Mitt Romney
Live to fight another day on better legislation. -- Dana Perino
Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise. -- Joseph Gurney Cannon
Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history. -- Harry Reid
Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped. -- Gary Johnson
The bulk of government is not legislation but administration. -- Theodore Roosevelt
It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress. -- Robert Winston
Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote. -- Ben Shapiro
The world is not going to be saved by legislation. -- William Howard Taft
All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession. -- Henry Clay
It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation -- Allen West
I will always support legislation which respects and values life. -- Gresham Barrett
What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. -- Robert A. Heinlein
In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else. -- Eric Schmidt
The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration. -- M. R. DeHaan
At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive. -- Richard Allen Epstein
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation -- Milton Friedman
The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation. -- John McCain
In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines. -- Joseph Gurney Cannon
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. -- William O. Douglas
I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries. -- Rand Paul
The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women. -- Warren Farrell
I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation. -- Andrew Cuomo
Iâ??m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. -- Daniel Radcliffe
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. -- Jeremy Bentham
Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation. -- Alice Hamilton
Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward. -- Kevin McCarthy
If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality. -- Jay Sekulow
If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality -- Jay Sekulow
I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care. -- Ed Pastor
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. -- James F. Cooper
It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action. -- Carter Heyward
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party." -- James F. Cooper
There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation. -- Otto von Bismarck
As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid. -- Isabel Paterson
The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense. -- Dana Gould
I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states. -- Rand Paul
A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life. -- George Will
Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction. -- John D. Rockefeller
I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship. -- Hillary Clinton
National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents, -- Barack Obama
I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs. -- Ed Pastor
I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion. -- Stephen Harper
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation. -- Ellen MacArthur
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label. -- George Meany
If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail. -- Solon

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