State Legislature Quotes

When we finally got school buses for African American students in Georgia, the state legislature ordained that the front bumpers be painted black. Not even the school busses could be equal.

All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don't think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it's all marvelous fun.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

I understand the significance of being one of 18 senators in Oklahoma history.

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things.

Raising property taxes in Alabama is never going to happen. The people are never going to vote for that. I don't like property taxes, either.

In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare what shall be a reasonable compensation under such circumstances, or perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable.

Members of state legislatures are owned by doctors and lawyers. That's why workers' compensation cannot be solved.

I have much greater faith in the governor and the state legislature to craft a Medicaid system that is going to be the best fit for the people of Georgia rather than someone in Washington dictating it.

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

You must first publicly avow that the constitution of the state is a shackle upon free and liberal legislation; and is, therefore, of as little use in the present enlightened age, as an almanac of the year in which the instrument was framed. There is policy in this measure, by making the constitution a mere dead letter, your headlong proceedings will be attributed to a bold and unshackled mind, whereas, it might otherwise be thought they arose from sheer mulish ignorance.

When I was in the state legislature, we asked for different examples of voter fraud, and the Republicans could never produce any sort of in-person voter fraud examples.

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

I sent a man to Richmond, Va., on Saturday, and one to Albany to-day, to get resolutions passed by the legislatures... I think it will control two members of the R. R. Committee

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State Legislature.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

The power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen) which remain exclusively with its own legislature, but to its external commerce only; that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.

I'm governor of New York.

Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves.

... with a cash machine like an income tax, the state legislature will go wild and go on a spending spree.

No state legislature ever built a great university.

We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.

Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.