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"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."
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"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."
"Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped."
"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
"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."
"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
"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."
"We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us."
"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."
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"Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs."
"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
"If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country."
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