#legislative

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#bailouts #bill #cut #end #fact

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#complex #first #large #legislative #legislative process

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president. ↗

— Dick Morris

#being #bob #congress #dole #elected

I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

#framework #i #legislative #limited #powers

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#basically #behalf #consumers #corporate #designed

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#border #border security #borders #complex #congress

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#branch #executive #executive branch #grown #judicial

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund? ↗

— Rick Perry

#balancing #billion #budget #climate #day

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#cultivation #gradually #import #lands #left

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#bureaucratic #cruel #failure #futility #game