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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

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.


Paul Ricoeur


#framework #legislative #moses #mouth #narrative

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.


Pete Rozelle


#american life #because #cases #court #court cases

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.


Joseph A. Schumpeter


#arrangement #arriving #being #certain #decisions

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.


Charles de Secondat


#arise #because #body #enact #execute

You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.


Dirk Kempthorne


#bold #future #grasp #greatest #here

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

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

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.


Nick Rahall


#i #legislative #legislative process #part #process






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