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"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
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"Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great."
"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."
"Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped."
"It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it."
"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."
"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
"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."
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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."
"No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win."
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