Quotes about Legislation

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.

Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.

Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.

When religious arguments based on the perspective of a single century or culture reach a high pitch, or when people who seem to have read only excerpts of the Bible use it to propose legislation, I return to the Book - not to find a solution, but to remember how many possibilities there are.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

As we say we fight for working people, we have to make sure our policies reflect that.

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.