#legislator

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#american #apple #apple pie #experience #i

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#corporate #fascinating #grips #growing #hear

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut. ↗

— Rand Paul

#balanced #become #cut #day #end

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done. ↗

— Rob Portman

#get #i #legislator #like #serious

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all. ↗

— Edith Rogers

#doing #legislators #me #moment #only

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

— John Ruskin

#effective #hands #instrument #last #least

It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted. ↗

— Michael Schiavo

#legislators #me #money #schiavo #terri

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them. ↗

— Mark Shields

#advocate #any #bridge #build #committees

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention. ↗

— Mark Shields

#attention #cause #critical #critical mass #elected

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#attempt #bear #cannot #every #god