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"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
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"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."
"Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about."
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"I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other."
"Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."
"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain."
"I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else."
"I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just 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."
"I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."
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