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"Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt."
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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."
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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid."
"Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue."
"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."
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