#legislator

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

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

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#legislators #poets #world

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

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense? ↗

— Russ Feingold

#bankruptcy #community #doing #doing the right thing #entire

And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it's my responsibility to read the amendments. ↗

— Henry Cuellar

#attorney #bill #every #good #i

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class. ↗

— Peter Welch

#been #class #congress #conscious #here

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes. ↗

— Justin Amash

#could #effective #explaining #how #i

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