Quotes with legislation

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  • Bob Beauprez Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bobby Seale Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Jeremy Bentham The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Bill McCollum The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.
    Bill McCollum
    American lawyer and politician (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Frist This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bob Ney This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bayard Rustin We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Carly Fiorina We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Denis Diderot 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 Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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