New Laws Quotes

Contrary to the narrative that Congress is racked by an inability to pass bills, the number of laws in our country has simply exploded. Less than 100 years ago, all of the federal government’s statutes fit into a single volume. By 2018, the U.S. Code encompassed 54 volumes and approximately 60,000 pages. Over the past decade, Congress has adopted an average of 344 new pieces of legislation each session. That amounts to 2 million to 3 million words of new federal law each year. Even the length of bills has grown—from an average of about two pages in the 1950s to 18 today.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

Every new law enforcement measure in recent years has been met with increasingly sophisticated evasive techniques on the part of organized crime.

We know that this man has a proven record of being a 'strict constructionist.' Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

Why does the new crime bill have so many new ways of killing people?

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

Lokpal Bill alone is not adequate to fight corruption. We need a comprehensive anti-corruption code in this country. The UPA Government has developed a powerful anti-corruption frame work consisting of eight new Central laws...... This is not about one Bill, this is about a frame work and we want to deliver that frame work to the country

No matter the cost of our political positions, common-sense gun-safety legislation is achievable. Colorado’s newest gun-safety laws have been in effect for months, and the recalls have no bearing on them.

I firmly believe Americans are far better off under tax reform than they ever were sticking with this old, messed up, outdated tax code.

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.

As ordinary citizens, we don't spend much time reading about and thinking through the creation of new laws or amendments of old ones.

In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They've got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.

New laws are written, and new men are made.

Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.

Because all of us believe that our democratic form of government can cope adequately with modern problems as they arise, it is patriotic as well as logical for us to prove that we can meet new national needs with new laws consistent with a historic constitutional framework clearly intended to receive liberal and not narrow interpretation.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

The emergency we now face is economic. New laws are not enough.

The childlike confidence which many people possess in the efficacy of a new law would be amusing if it were not so serious in its harmful effects.