#legislator

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#be the first #come #degree #elected #first

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#against #being #being ignored #congress #does

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#community #especially #legislators #million #music

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#bought #buying #controlled #first #first things

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things. ↗

— Ben Okri

#acknowledged #cannot #coded #dislike #frontiers

People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas. ↗

— Ralph Regula

#being #contact #group #ideas #impact

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. ↗

— Barney Frank

#hierarchy #legislators #responsibilities #set #together

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation. ↗

— John Sununu

#behind #benefit #broadband #business #concepts

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework. ↗

— John Sununu

#compliance #constant #constant need #cost #either

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin. ↗

— Mark Shields

#competing #dozens #important #important thing #interests