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The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.


Mark Shields


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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

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

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.


William Howard Taft


#important #laws #legislators #live #more

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.


Percy Bysshe Shelley


#legislators #poets #world

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that.


Gwen Moore


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We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.


Krist Novoselic


#community #especially #legislators #million #music

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


P. J. O'Rourke


#bought #buying #controlled #first #first things

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.


James L. Buckley


#ambition #controlled #corruption #democratic #democratic system

I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans.


Jim Walsh


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