State Legislatures Quotes

• No state legislature ever built a great university.

  James E. Rogers, Jr.

  Legislature, States, University

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• La verdadera dificultad estriba en la enorme riqueza y poder en manos de unos pocos y sin escrúpulos que representan o controlan el capital. Cientos de leyes del Congreso y de las legislaturas estatales van en interés de estos hombres y en contra de los intereses de los trabajadores. Hay que denunciarlas y derogarlas. Todas las leyes sobre sociedades, impuestos, fideicomisos, testamentos, descendencia y similares deben ser examinadas y modificadas en profundidad. Este ya no es un gobierno del pueblo, por el pueblo y para el pueblo. Es un gobierno de corporaciones, por corporaciones y para corporaciones.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, Men, Hands

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 11, 1888.

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• All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

  H. L. Mencken

  Zoos, Freedom, Political

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.365, Vintage

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• I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.

  Samuel Chase

  Omnipotence, Legislature, States

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• What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this, no statute from Congress or the state legislatures. It was accomplished in a private corporate decision. The banks just did it.

  Christopher Peterson

  Real, Decision, Democracy

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• There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Country, School, World Religions

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• No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Writing, Shining, Decision

  Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns”, p.93, Vintage

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• If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

  John Dickinson

  Government, Rooms, Would Be

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• I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

  Harry Shearer

  Escuela, Años, Dos

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• ...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various states...are typically composed..of physicians,...members of the AMA. The boards, or the state legislatures...give the AMA the power to influence the number of persons admitted to practice (by) lengthy training,...(and) the list of 'approved' schools and hospitals (which) is generally identical with the list issued by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the AMA.

  Milton Friedman

  School, Dark, Practice

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• ¿Cómo reaccionar cuando tu propio gobierno te miente sistemáticamente sobre cuestiones de vida o muerte? Como he señalado antes, la respuesta es la acción política en las legislaturas estatales, y un arma en manos del público es la comprensión de la pseudociencia y la pseudoepidemiología que representan artículos como éste.

  Harris L Coulter

  Lying, Hands, Government Lies

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• Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and the tribe voted yes, and as a tribal representative to the state legislature, I had to represent that decision.

  Donna M. Loring

  Playing Games, Decision, Casinos

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• Va a ser muy importante que nosotras, como defensoras de los derechos de la mujer, participemos en la redistribución de distritos tanto de las asambleas legislativas de los estados como de la Cámara de Representantes, y que no perdamos escaños, sino que los ganemos para las mujeres con talento y para nuestro país, pero nos faltan.

  Eleanor Smeal

  País, Derechos, Casa

  Entrevista con Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. 22 de diciembre de 2008.

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• I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures.

  John Cornyn

  Law, Judging, Want

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. 9 de enero de 2006.

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• I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain cases and many have criticized its recent lack of deference to decisions made by state legislatures and Congress.

  Mike DeWine

  Decision, Firsts, Clarity

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think our message,the Clinton campaign was very strong. Remember, this is their fourth campaign in South Carolina. Two for Bill Clinton. Two for Hillary Clinton. They had it well organized. They did well. And Icongratulate them. We came into that state at something like 7 or 8 percent in the polls. It was a tough road for us to hoe. But I want to thank all of our supporters, the members of the South Carolina state legislature.

  Bernie Sanders

  Strong, Thinking, Two

  Fuente: www.cbsnews.com

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• I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

  Gore Vidal

  Revival, Legislature, States

  "Gore Vidal sobre los medios de comunicación y el pueblo estadounidense". Entrevista con David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. 1 de agosto de 2012.

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• An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Able, Infinite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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• Maybe this Democratic president[Barack Obama] did and can get comprehensive health care reform passed, but notice, Medicaid is not expanded in any of these dark red states. The Republican Party may not be able to repeal Obamacare, but it certainly, through its state legislatures and governorships, has managed to halt Obamacare`s full impact.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Party, Dark, Obamacare

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Giving, Support

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2425, Library of Alexandria

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• In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

  Justin Amash

  Years, Balance, Michigan

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• Estábamos justo al principio de la recuperación [en 2010]. Y, ya sabes, quienquiera que sea presidente en ese momento va a ser golpeado y su partido va a ser golpeado. Eso significa que de repente tienes una redistribución de distritos en la que muchas legislaturas estatales son ahora republicanas. Trazan líneas que dan una enorme ventaja estructural en las elecciones posteriores.

  Barack Obama

  Fiesta, Recuperación, Media

  Fuente: abcnews.go.com

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• I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.

  Al Gore

  Running, White, People

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• In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

  Sandra Fluke

  Derechos, Años, Dos

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• An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and imprisonment.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pensar, Derecho, Capaz

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

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