Legislative Reaction Quotes

As soon as something really bad happens, I guarantee you Congress will act. I absolutely guarantee you Congress will act. But the question is, should we wait for that?

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

Every time there is a perceived crisis, law-enforcement agencies and legislators overreact, and usually due process and civil liberties suffer.

Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

Today's Congress responds to everything, to everybody, to every whim.

Legislatures react. Executives initiate.

The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite.

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.

When we do not understand something, a common reaction is to fear it. In government, this is the usual, and encouraged, reaction. The reaction to the gig economy has been no different, and this growing fear has unfortunately turned into a legislative bloodbath.