David Baker Quotes

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.

As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.

I can’t pass any legislation that will stop children from having children. Education must do that.

Rights are useless unless the possessor knows about them.

When Congress writes a good law, then there are fewer lawsuits trying to interpret it.

Law school! A man must read law in the court house.

All the industries we deal with have a fundamental obligation to provide technology to education.

The law has to be, in part, a teacher.

The notion that we should take away educational programs in prisons in order to be tough on crime makes no sense.

There shall be a system of common schools ... to be open without charge to all classes of persons

We have turned, or are about to turn, loose four million slaves without a hut to shelter them or a cent in their pockets. The infernal laws of slavery have prevented them from acquiring an education, understanding the common laws of contract, or of managing the ordinary business of life. This Congress is bound to provide for them until they can take care of themselves. If we do not furnish them with homesteads, and hedge them around with protective laws; if we leave them to the legislation of their late masters, we had better have left them in bondage.

Scarcely any subject that has to be legislated upon in civil society failed, at one time or another, to demand the action of this singular Bureau [The Freedmen’s Bureau]

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary.

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers.

A good law is one that holds, whether you recognize it or not; a bad law is one that cannot, however much you ordain it.

Somebody is going to be making the laws for this entire country. It could be you. Will it be you?

There's a long bipartisan tradition of civil rights enforcement.

Agencies exist to administer the law.

Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found ways to serve those children that traditional schools couldn't.

Law is when you don't have a method of solving a problem... It's just nailing a proclamation on a wall saying, 'Don't do this.'

Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.

While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect and expect equality.

We need senators who have studied physics and representatives who understand ecology.

Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need? We have many laws - thousands upon thousands of them - but they are constantly being broken.