#legislator

If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions.. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#control-of-men #god #legislator #men

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. ↗

— Aristotle

#better #business #clearly #common #create

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job. ↗

— Craig Benson

#business #careers #doing #done #extent

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#legislators #poets #world

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? ↗

— Nigel Farage

#idea #law #legislators #now #radical

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

— William S. Burroughs

#architects #artists #change #fact #implement

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense? ↗

— Russ Feingold

#bankruptcy #community #doing #doing the right thing #entire

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

#attorney #attorney general #because #budget #bunch

And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it's my responsibility to read the amendments. ↗

— Henry Cuellar

#attorney #bill #every #good #i

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class. ↗

— Peter Welch

#been #class #congress #conscious #here