Law Makers Quotes

#1. It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

#2. The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality.

Peter Akinola

#3. The desire the law makers have in having only dispensary owners to control marijuana is part of the game our law makers play to create a bureau of specific business created that owes its allegiance to the political process and therefore will make sure that process continues.

Steven Machat

#4. The Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on ... We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#5. They had not learnt the great lesson, that trade prospers best when it is left alone by law-makers.

Louise Creighton

#6. [T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#8. It is not enough to be electors only.
It is necessary to be law-makers;
otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters of those who can only be electors.

B.R. Ambedkar

#9. You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

Robert Cormier

#10. There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#11. Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.

John Millington Synge

#12. For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

Brian Kernighan

#13. If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.

Robert J. Ringer

#14. I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

Susan Cain

#15. [It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.

Elvis Presley

#16. The makers of our Constitution ... conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

Louis D. Brandeis

#17. In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.

Widad Akreyi

#18. and a barge that sailed into the banqueting-hall with his week's washing, just as he was giving a dinner-party; and he was

Kenneth Grahame