#legislator

I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?' ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#back #counting #did #get #getting

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#being #biggest #controlling #impact #important

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. ↗

— John Rawls

#citizens #criterion #enact #ideally #legislators

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#believe #consider #deeply #even #i

If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions.. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#control-of-men #god #legislator #men

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. ↗

— Aristotle

#better #business #clearly #common #create

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job. ↗

— Craig Benson

#business #careers #doing #done #extent

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#legislators #poets #world

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? ↗

— Nigel Farage

#idea #law #legislators #now #radical

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#architects #artists #change #fact #implement