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"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
"We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us."
"The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting."
"The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself."
"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact."
"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."
"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."
"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
"Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only."
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"I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes."
"You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing."
"If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus."
"And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians."
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