Quotes on Legislation

Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.

Author: Arthur Bryant

Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that - would be right.

Author: David Cameron

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

Author: Susan Collins

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

Author: Pete Domenici

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

Author: Kinky Friedman

Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

Author: Gary Johnson

In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.

Author: Ron Kind

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

Author: Cathy McMorris

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

Author: Solomon Ortiz

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

Author: Doug Ose

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

Author: John Sweeney

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

Author: William Taft

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

Author: William Taft

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.

Author: Tom Udall