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Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
We are way overstepping bounds as federal legislators.
Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.
For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.
I think even pro-China legislators would not believe I'm really a CIA agent.
I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.
Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.
The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators.
Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.
As a district judge, I view my role quite differently than the role of legislators.
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.
Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere.
It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?
It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.
A commission presenting evidence doesn't do a Jedi mind trick and make state legislators in some state suddenly pass a bill.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
When legislators do something that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, there's always the suspicion that they're in somebody's pocket.
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
Sometimes, government officials and legislators disagree on policies or issues. Yet, we invariably want the best for Hong Kong people.
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.
Only when legislators judge that the risk of continuing to support Trump outweighs the risk of abandoning him will they begin to jump ship.
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
When I first got asked to run for the state Senate, I was asked by a number of legislators I had worked with, and I thanked them and declined.
Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
I applaud Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison and the legislators in the Nevada State Senate who have introduced SB 26 to fight the BDS movement in Nevada.
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.
The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.
Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.
My legislators devote most of their time to attend to people's problems. I want the people to devote more time and contribute to the development of the state.
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.'
If legislators come to believe that police power is an ever-present constitutional trump card they can play whenever it suits them, overreaching is inexorable.
Gay marriage passed in New York because four Republican legislators crossed party lines. They did it in part because they had true bipartisan financial support.
But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.
We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.
It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted.
I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans.
Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges.
My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.
And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.