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I am the epitome of a citizen legislator.
I want to be influential as a legislator.
You have to have patience to be a legislator.
I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.
I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.
I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.
In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
No public servant or legislator can claim any privacy to take money for conducting their official functions.
As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.
Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.
Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.
I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done.
As a legislator, I was elected to make the tough decisions and produce solutions to the problems facing our country.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
I'm a businessman. I'm a former legislator, and I'm an executive. And I've been very effective in each one of those positions.
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.
He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country's welfare, lest it should perish by knowing no bounds.
My concept of hitting the ground running and being an effective legislator is to focus on my district and having really good constituent work.
There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
As a California state legislator, I supported our cap-and-trade law to force polluters to pay for releasing harmful greenhouse gases to combat climate change.
My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon's second largest newspaper. He was a pretty amazing guy.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Paul Ryan has been a responsible legislator and public servant, almost alone among members of Congress in his belief that we need to strengthen and save our social entitlements.
I arrived in Hartford as a 25-year-old naive state legislator who believed in universal health care. I rose to become the 29-year-old Chairman of the legislature's Health Committee.
I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.
The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.
Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.
We worked very well with Mark Sanford. We stood shoulder to shoulder fighting for the principles that we believe in. But another person that stood there as well was a legislator, State Senator Larry Grooms.
And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it's my responsibility to read the amendments.
Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.
Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with our audience - be they young or old, Democrats or Republicans, rich or poor, religious or secular.
I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.
I've never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average person is thinking more about what I've accomplished in my professional career and what I've accomplished in my career as a legislator.
Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.
Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.
During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.
I'm not a legislator. I've never been a lobbyist. I've never worked a session before, but based on my conversations with leadership in the Senate and the House, I get the general sense that people want to work together to make things happen.
I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.
As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign.