Maryland Quotes

They who make laws may without doubt amend or repeal them.

The legislator commands the future.

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

Do you want to make a statement or do you want to make a law?

Congress, rather than administrative agencies should fashion any policy that is not only of great economic importance but also one that has divided the faiths and loyalties of classes of people.

Don’t bother interpreting the statute for us: we know it better than you do, for we made it.

I would like to add some legislative history at the end of my remarks.

The general laws of the kingdom may be enacted only with the consent of the king and the nation. If the king proposes a law, the nation accepts or rejects it; if the nation demands a law, it is for the king to consent or to reject it

The President … does not originate laws or resolutions; he takes no part in the deliberations on them during their progress; he does not act in relation to them indirectly by advice or interference of any sort, until they have passed both houses: it is only when their operations are concluded that his power begins.

Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant.

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

An act of Congress is binding upon all as much as if it were included … in the Constitution itself.

Legislating is perceived as governing and governing is perceived as legislating. Legislation—conceiving it, proposing it, fighting over it, winning or losing, making the proper proclamation when passed or signed—not only is the main ‘action’ seen in Washington but is the key political currency in dealing with the voting public.... The President must necessarily consider legislative initiatives and actions as central to his own interest and his own leadership efforts.

It is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as the measures.

[The] fundamental principal of all just legislation [is] that the legislature shall not take the property of A and give it to B.

[Congressional] investigations only make it look like legislators have a solution.

The governor has led the way, but he's not an emperor. The legislature has to act. He cannot pass a bill by himself.