Legislature Quotes - Page 4

• The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Writing, Law

  "The Gaffes of George W. Bush" by William Saletan, Avi Zenilman, www.slate.com. October 8, 2003.

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• I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Creer, Hombres, Derechos

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). "Las enseñanzas de Ezra Taft Benson", Bookcraft Pubs

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• La escuela envía hombres a la legislatura, a la judicatura y a la oficina ejecutiva. La abogacía los envía al cadalso y al infierno.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  Escuela, Hombres, Oficina

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• The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood, of friendship, and of acquaintance embrace a great proportion of the most influential part of the society . . . they are more immediately the confidential guardians of their rights and liberties.

  James Madison

  Blood, Rights, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.249, Coventry House Publishing

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• Pero lo único que puedo hacer es presentar mi presupuesto y luego defenderlo ante la Asamblea Legislativa para que actúe.

  George Pataki

  Cases, Submit, Knows

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• If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

  Martin Van Buren

  Law, Acting, Limits

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.13

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• Fui al Oeste y participé en la huelga de los maquinistas: el ferrocarril Southern Pacific, la corporación que balanceaba California por su cola dorada, que controlaba su legislatura, sus granjeros, sus predicadores, sus trabajadores.

  Mother Jones

  California, Southern, Railroads

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• A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

  Thomas Paine

  Political, Liberty, Principles

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• The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

  George Minot

  People, Mind, Stopping

  George Richards Minot (1810). “The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts: In the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six. And the Rebellion Consequent Thereon”, p.39, Boston : J.W. Burditt

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• I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.

  Anthony Weiner

  Country, Travel, Jobs

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• Pero Connecticut y Rhode Island han realizado originalmente la política más perfecta en cuanto a una legislatura.

  Ezra Stiles

  Rhode Island, Islands, Perfect

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• I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

  Janet Reno

  Guilt, Death Penalty, Vote

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• Hablar de moral en el arte es hablar de legislatura en el sexo. El arte es el sexo de la imaginación.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Sex, Imagination

  George Jean Nathan (1972). "The World in Falseface", p.7, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Cutting, Slave, Made

  Doctor Albert Bushnell Hart (1909). "Épocas de la Historia Americana"

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• Además, como vivimos en una era de ascenso de la democracia y los derechos humanos, debemos ver que Taiwán ha sido una democracia vibrante con un presidente y una asamblea legislativa elegidos democráticamente.

  Nick Lampson

  Derechos, Democracia, Presidente

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• Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

  Gaston Caperton

  Strong, Commitment, Florida

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• Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

  Tom Hayden

  Block, California, Republican

  Tom Hayden (2008). "Escritos para una sociedad democrática: The Tom Hayden Reader", City Lights Publishers

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• La seguridad en nuestras carreteras ha mejorado notablemente, con la ayuda del poder legislativo y los medios de comunicación.

  Jane D. Hull

  Media, Safety, Helping

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• They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

  Ken Blackwell

  Reality, Cards, Use

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• How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

  Kinky Friedman

  Believe, Intelligent, Texas

  Kinky Friedman (2007). “You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Successful, Blessing

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• Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society.

  Emma Goldman

  Gobierno, Orden, Ley

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• El ejecutivo, en nuestro gobierno, no es el único, es apenas el principal, objeto de mis celos. La tiranía de la legislatura es el temor más formidable en la actualidad y lo será durante muchos años. La del ejecutivo vendrá a su vez, pero será en un período remoto.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gobierno, Años, Votar

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). "Memorias, correspondencia y papeles privados de Thomas Jefferson, ed. por T.J. Randolph".

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• Es confortable ver erigido por fin el estandarte de la razón, después de tantas edades, durante las cuales la mente humana ha sido mantenida en vasallaje por reyes, sacerdotes y nobles; y es honorable para nosotros haber producido la primera legislatura que tuvo el valor de declarar que se puede confiar a la razón del hombre la formación de sus propias opiniones.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Men, Independence

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Estudiad la Constitución. Que sea predicada desde el púlpito, proclamada en las legislaturas y aplicada en los tribunales de justicia.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Justice, Politics, Study

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