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Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations. -- Lysander Spooner
Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists. -- Walter E. Williams
Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals. -- Simon Bolivar
Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence. -- Marc Rotenberg
Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest. -- Doug Bandow
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. -- Barney Frank
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. -- Earl Warren
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents. -- Alan Siegel
It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? -- Nigel Farage
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. -- William S. Burroughs
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. -- Ralph Nader
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue. -- Alan K. Simpson
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation. -- John Sununu
Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially. -- Anthony Lewis
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. -- William Howard Taft
As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget. -- Ben Chandler
As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that. -- Gwen Moore
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle. --
I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators. -- Andrew Cuomo
In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around. -- Matt Taibbi
Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal. -- Benigno Aquino III
William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.' -- Bill Dedman
What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense? -- Russ Feingold
The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework. -- John Sununu
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. -- Edmund Burke
'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality. -- Gary Bauer
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers. -- Josiah Warren
At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing. -- John Sarbanes
Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can't draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That's really critical. -- Dan Gelber
I remember when I was a young social worker, the first time I went to the state capital in Arizona, where I eventually served for seven years, I was so nervous to go and lobby my state legislators. Because I only had a master's degree at the time in social work. -- Kyrsten Sinema
Ideal legislators do not vote their interests. -- John Rawls
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. -- Bill Dedman
Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church? -- Harry Belafonte
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators. -- Gray Davis
Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? -- Nigel Farage
In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians. -- Bill Dedman
There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators. -- Chuck Grassley
There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities. -- Otis Moss III
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. -- Robert Zoellick
People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen legislators. -- Tom Coburn
The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever. -- Tim Kaine
We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes. -- Krist Novoselic
Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest. -- Bill Dedman
Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do. -- Karen DeCrow
It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else. -- Sarah Weddington
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history. -- Bernie Sanders
Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy. -- Mike DeWine
The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend. -- Thomas Jefferson
But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all. -- Edith Rogers
A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply. -- Henry Fielding
The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth. -- Barney Frank
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against a class of people. -- Eleanor Smeal
It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges. -- Ted Cruz
It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted. -- Michael Schiavo
Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves. -- Liz Cheney
We had a lot of people say, you guys are the most ineffective legislators in Olympia and your bills never go anywhere ... They can't say that anymore, can they? -- Matt Shea
I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans. -- Jim Walsh
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to. -- Robert Hass
Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law. -- Allen W. Wood
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it. -- Josiah Warren
Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science. -- Samuel Johnson
When public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social Security that legislators fear to cut. -- Edmund Phelps
And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers. -- John Hutton
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut. -- Rand Paul
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill. -- Matt Taibbi
I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators -- Andrew Cuomo
Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and readable it should be studied by all academicians, students, legislators and lawyers. -- Nancy Kassebaum
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 Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat. -- Thomas Paine

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