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You can't legislate morality.
You can't legislate sobriety.
You can't legislate good taste.
We can't legislate human nature.
You can't legislate against stupidity.
If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.
Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.
I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power.
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.
Some people like to campaign like a conservative and legislate like a progressive.
If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.
Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can't legislate for it.
If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.
If other managers are going to say things I can't legislate for that, that's their opinions.
If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America.
We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.
If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
In Washington you legislate, but at home you touch people's lives; that's what I try to do when I go there.
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.
The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.
I've made it pretty clear that I can't legislate or dictate proper behavior. You can't. You do everything that you can.
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.
You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
If we elect people who have never been to public school, never had to worry about counting on Social Security, then how can they effectively legislate?
Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.
As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'
You can't actually legislate what goes on in people's minds and their attitudes, but you certainly can legislate for parity where pay and salaries are concerned.
I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology.
I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.
There has to be a national consensus. We cannot legislate without overwhelming national consensus that religious and communal groups should be totally banned from politics.
You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage. It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.
It's hard because you can't legislate creative diversity. I think it's more that the gaming community's more diverse, and they're going to ask for more diverse experiences. They're going to demand them.
I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.
Unlike our neighbours on the mainland of Europe, we have resisted creating an academy to legislate over proper English. We each have our linguistic bugbear, but few of us would want to freeze our mother tongue.