Montesquieu Quotes

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

There are no good laws except simple laws.

When Congress writes a good law, then there are fewer lawsuits trying to interpret it.

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

Reading is power. Reading is life.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Legislating should be done in a manner that is understandable to the governed.

Congress is not very good at explaining complex legislation to the public.

It is not hard to get men to agree when the facts are known.

It is much better that the House wonder why you do not speak than why you do.

I asked for more information because I am unable to unscrew the inscrutable.