Quotes about Legislation

Our present condition, is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect Independance contending for dependance.

The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.

Folks, we want to end Obamacare. We want to go to a plan that is so much better and so much less expensive, right?

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

The more laws, the less justice.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

So many laws argue so many sins.