I've long favored smart judicial-selection reform - every member of my court does - and every legislative session, reform measures are filed... and then they fail.
Don Willett
SmartLongLegislativeFailReform
A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.
Nicolas Sarkozy
MePageLegislativeElectionsCome
If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.
David Ricardo
PresentLegislativeLeftCapitalOur
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
J. Reuben Clark
IndependenceGeniusLegislativeUnion
Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorneys General are often overshadowed by gubernatorial and federal elections.
Ronnie Musgrove
ImportantLegislativeElectionsLike
The beauty of our court system is that anybody can enter the court and sue. Uh, you have to be appointed to be in the Executive Branch. You have to be elected to be in the Legislative Branch, but anybody can go into court.
Dick Morris
BeautyYouGoLegislativeSystem
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Montesquieu
BodyPersonLibertySameLegislative
We've always said a filibuster is not appropriate for judicial nominees. A filibuster is a legislative tool designed to extract compromises. A judicial nominee is a person. You can't take the arm or leg of a nominee.
Wendy Long
YouPersonSaidAlwaysLegislative
I love working the legislative process.
Kate Brown
LoveProcessLegislativeWorking
Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.
John Engler
BodyLegislativeTakeActionsPurest
There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.
Martin O'Malley
ChangeGrowingEconomyLegislative
Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
GovernmentSafetyTopLegislative
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.
Lyn Nofziger
StupidStrongLegislativeArrogant
I've been ostracized before in legislative bodies for voting against the majority. That doesn't bother me.
Terry Sanford
MeVotingLegislativeAgainstBeen
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
Abraham Lincoln
MotherJusticeAmericanLegislative
I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.
ImportantNowFullestLegislative
There's a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.
Mike Lee
PowerLegislativeExecutiveBranch
I have signed the personhood petition. I have taken the petitions to my church and circulating into my church. And I have a legislative record that backs up my support for life.
Cory Gardner
LifeSupportChurchLegislativeUp
All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
Leland Stanford
WealthCountryWayLegislativeAny
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
Paul Ricoeur
MouthOldFirstLegislativeWithin
I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
Dan Webster
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