Montesquieu Quotes

If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.

There are no good laws except simple laws.

The shutdown may have temporarily sidetracked the Republicans, yet Obamacare threatens much worse for the Democrats. By 2014 the former will be ancient history, while the latter will be an ongoing mess.

There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

If we are going to amend the constitution, shouldn't it be to keep the omos-hay from arrying-may?

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

It's important to remember that whatever the presidential candidates of either party say, they will have to interact with the United States Congress, particularly the Senate, when it comes to crafting policy.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.

President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

It is a pipe dream to think that that bill is going to the floor and be voted on.

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.