#legislature

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#against #agenda #attempt #courts #culture

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. ↗

— Gideon J. (Gideon John) Tucker

#liberty #life #property #life

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#any #court #eliminate #fought #legislatures

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#card #change #i #i tried #legislature

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#colleges #cut #cuts #education #funding

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. ↗

— George W. Bush

#executive #interpret #job #law #legislature

We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#been #derived #done #force #got

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions. ↗

— John Grisham

#angle #been #congress #convicted #convictions

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#legislature #nearly #opinion #public #public opinion

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#billy #both #business #career #decisions