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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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"Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt."
"Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
"The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting."
"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."
"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
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"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."
"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."
"I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become."
"I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me."
"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."
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