Legislation quotes

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◆ Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don't believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me and legislate it to other people. That's not how it works in America.

- Senator John Kerry100

◆ This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

- Cathy McMorris99

◆ That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

- Rocco Buttiglione99

◆ We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

- Sue Kelly99

◆ The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

- John Conyers99

◆ When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.

- Robert Bork99

◆ Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

- Sherwood Boehlert99

◆ Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

- Katharine Fullerton Gerould99

◆ The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.

- Lamar Alexander99

◆ 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.

- Tony Campolo99

◆ Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ Its hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ Today's public opinion, though it may appear as light as air, may be tomorrow's legislation-for better or for worse.

- William Gilmore Simms99

◆ All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing

- Elinor Glyn99

◆ Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

- Denis Diderot99