State Legislators Quotes

#1. In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

Bill Dedman

#2. Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

John Locke

#3. There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.

Derek Bok

#4. My favorite Congressional incongruity: ... Red State legislators galumphing from meeting to meeting in full pancake makeup. Estee Lauder may well make more money on Capitol Hill than in Beverly Hills.

Frank Bruni

#5. I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively, instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

E.B. White

#6. It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

Sarah Weddington

#7. The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators.

Rob Woodall

#8. I am proud to join the many state legislators, governors, businessmen and hard-working Americans who have worked to build support and momentum for the idea of the Health Care Compact, and I am proud to introduce the common-sense bill for this sensible solution.

James Lankford

#9. I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric

Frank Zappa

#10. He felt a giant among pygmies, a pike among crappies, as he stood there among the legislators, most of whom owed him for flavors - special bills passed for their law clients, state jobs for constituents, " contributions" for their personal campaign funds, and so on.

A.J. Liebling

#11. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.

Alan Cohen

#12. I remember when I was a young social worker, the first time I went to the state capital in Arizona, where I eventually served for seven years, I was so nervous to go and lobby my state legislators. Because I only had a master's degree at the time in social work.

Kyrsten Sinema

#13. I'm learning that "myth" doesn't mean what I thought it did. It really means, "based on truth" and the truth is terrifying.

Amy A. Bartol

#14. We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.

Willis Harman

#15. It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

James Russell Lowell

#16. If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved ... or star in a movie.

LeBron James

#17. A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect of legislators hath forgotten to supply.

Henry Fielding

#18. When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Edmund Burke

#19. The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

Stendhal

#20. Sundance is a really special place. They're very protective of movies, especially lower-budget movies.

Marc Webb

#21. Love is my way and treasure, love is my strength and power.

Debasish Mridha

#22. You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

Gloria Steinem

#23. But if I was a miracle, then that came with certain obligations and privileges.
Privileges I would call on in order to end them an who'd killed me. Obligations I meant to uphold now I was free. I'd returned from the dead. And I'd bring the wrath of hell toward my enemies.

Pepper Winters

#24. My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that?

Gemma Halliday

#25. A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.

Dave Barry

#26. I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

Guy De Maupassant

#27. If life was fair ... one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers ... one third of police and prison officials ... and one third of legislators ... and one third more to make the other three thirds make any sense at all .... Thank goodness for no fair.

Brian Spellman

#28. Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.

Mike DeWine

#29. I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.

Evgeni Plushenko

#30. All I need is one mic
One beat, one stage
One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page
Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib
One god to show me how to do things his son did.

Nas