Legislate Quotes

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign.

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

You can't legislate sobriety.

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

You can't legislate morality.

I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.