#legislature

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them. ↗

— Robert. L. Ehrlich

#appropriate #celebrate #choose #citizen #decent

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#graduate school #harvard #i #legislature #sacramento

It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#between #consequences #disconnect #happening #knows

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt. ↗

— Janet Reno

#ask #concluded #could #death #death penalty

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

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. ↗

— Edward Koch

#hands #legislature #moment #more #say

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#been #focused #house #last #legislation

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