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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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"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."
"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."
"The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting."
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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."
"If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country."
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."
"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."
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