Quotes About Legislative Bodies

#1. Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.

William Gilmore Simms

#3. As a man of the Congress, let me reaffirm my conviction that the collective wisdom of our two great legislative bodies, while not infallible, will in the end serve the people faithfully and very, very well.

Gerald R. Ford

#4. Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

Ambrose Bierce

#5. In spite of the general agreement by professional educators, the public, and legislative bodies that the health and growth of teachers are basic to the health of schools, existing staff development is crammed into a tiny space of money and time.

Bruce R. Joyce

#6. I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

Isabel Allende

#7. E may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you.

Greg Behrendt

#8. Sin had so shut up mercy from us, that had not Christ made an atonement by his death, we should never have obtained it to all eternity.

John Flavel

#9. San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal

Nathaniel Dorsky

#10. Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary.

Noam Chomsky

#11. I feel kind of safe when I'm with him. I know he'd protect me with his life, from anyone and anything, but he can't and he doesn't protect me from himself.

Mary Elizabeth

#12. We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous,

George Will

#13. Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

Gary Lockwood

#14. I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.

Dave Davies

#15. I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

Michael Clarke Duncan

#16. There is always, always the other road to choose, even if it seems to be nothing more than an unpaved path in the middle of nowhere?

Susan Meissner

#17. If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.

India.Arie