#legislature

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

— Charles Dudley Warner

#legislature #nearly #opinion #public #public opinion

I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#cares #count #country #deal #fight

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#block #california #hanoi #legislature #republicans

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

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#been #democracy #democratically #elected #era

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#imagination #legislature #morals #sex #speak

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees. ↗

— Earl Warren

#legislatures #people #represent #trees

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution. ↗

— Jeff Sessions

#altering #been #changing #defined #ever

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#island #legislature #most #originally #perfect

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty. ↗

— John Strachan

#build #churches #clergymen #difficulty #done