#legislation

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#allows #america #binding #compensation #court

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#imposed #inflation #legislation #taxation #without

I will always support legislation which respects and values life. ↗

— Gresham Barrett

#i #legislation #life #respects #support

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#greatest #greatest happiness #greatest number #happiness #legislation

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 Bork

#assumes #because #decide #disapprove #distinctions

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

#asian #bad #countries #european #good

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#around #aside #because #comforting #enact

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. ↗

— Julian Assange

#between #china #enormous #freedom #freedom of speech

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. ↗

— Max Baucus

#durable #fundamentally #historic #large #large number

This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#children #comfort #dollars #fall #federal