Quotes of Legislator - somelinesforyou

“ A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. ”

- James Clarke

“ We feel that citizens have a right to know how much money is being spent to influence their legislators. ”

- Bob Phillips

“ He'd be natural liberal Senator. Nobody listens to him. ”

- Al Franken

“ We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do. ”

- Joe Manchin

“ The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ In politics, nothing is contemptible. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The politician is like an acrobat: He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ We have all these senators and members of the House who say the president hasn't made his case yet. ”

- James Inhofe

“ Let's cause some senators distress. ”

- Peggy Noonan

“ It's going to pass. It just depends on when that willful band of three or four senators is going to recognize that. ”

- Max Baucus

“ Senator Kerry knows President Bush has called his service in Vietnam noble... and the Bush campaign has tried to have a debate about the future, not the past. ”

- Steve Schmidt

“ The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. ”

- Earl Wilson

“ Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician. ”

- Peter Singer

“ This will be the defining race for the future of our state,... We will elect a new senator and a new congressman. There are 20 seats open in the state legislature. This is serious business. ”

- Chuck Hagel

“ I'm not a politician and my other habits are good. ”

- Artemus Ward

“ He's an active Democrat, as he has every right to be,... But he has supported causes and persons that have been in direct opposition to Congressman Delay. ”

- Tom Delay

“ It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of this or that individual statesman or group of statesmen. Idealists make a great mistake in not facing the real facts sincerely and resolutely… ”

- Jan Christian Smuts

“ And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and. ”

- Frederic Bastiat

“ What I have observed over the past 18 years is that the pace, the number of bills and the amount of time that legislators have is certainly less than what they used to have. So getting with them during the session is becoming increasingly difficult. And so you have to resort to other means… ”

- Don Hall

“ No one should be afraid of more sunshine — that's what this bill is about. That is something the majority of legislators have voted for and something a very broad coalition has backed, and we believe the Commerce Department does not want to stand in the way of that. ”

- Bob Phillips

“ I would like to think that ambition is a gift if looked at from a Christian perspective. It seems to me that God was ambitious when He made the world and all that is in it. His plans for us are ambitious. He sees us redeemed to Himself — worshipping Him in this life and for eternity… ”

- Diane Glancy

“ Politicians — power itself — are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden… ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ”

- Gandhi

“ Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye. ”

- L. R. Powell

“ Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ”

- William S. Burroughs

“ Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ”

- John Ruskin

“ As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators… and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget. ”

- Ben Chandler

“ 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
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