Quotes about Legislation

Righteousness can never be legislated. It is a matter of the heart.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

Stripe for stripe is human law; "by His stripes we are healed" is superhuman, the result of a legislation as gracious as it is divine.

As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

President Bill Clinton tried to make that distinction. As a Christian, he said, he sought guidance on moral issues from the Bible. As president of the United States, though, he could not automatically propose that everything immoral should therefore be made illegal.

As a governor, I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under existing federal law, none of which have been harsh or punitive, but I think they've been important to really point out a pro-life culture in Arkansas. That's, for me, a good thing.

A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.

Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.