Quotes about Legislation

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.