Quotes tagged ‘Legislation’

(4 total)

“I have legislative policies that I'm interested in—equal pay for equal work, child care, paid leave, college affordability, education, agriculture. But outside of that, I feel it's critical that people be passionate and feel invested in politics. I want to see women run for office at all levels. And…”

— Ruben Gallego, npr.org

“Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“You know, I realize that as an adult not everyone shares my view of the world, and with an issue as hot as gun control I'm prepared to accept a lot of different points of view as being perfectly valid, but we can all get together on the grenade launcher, right?”

— Aaron Sorkin, Lawrence O'Donnell, Patrick Caddell, Josh Lyman, Bradley Whitford, imdb.com

“The left sometimes focuses on ‘gun control,’ which scares off gun owners and leads to more gun sales. A better framing is ‘gun safety’ or ‘reducing gun violence,’ and using auto safety as a model—constant efforts to make the products safer and to limit access by people who are most likely to misuse…”

— Nicholas Kristof, nytimes.com