Lawmaking Quotes

“you calm down and listen carefully to these words.” He pressed the play button on his recorder and held it to the sending end of the telephone.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

“…being specific is the essence of lawmaking and the whole difference between having a Congress and having a mom.”
― P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“Justice can readily do her job blindfolded; she cannot function gagged and deafened, least of all when the means of gagging and deafening her are not remarked.”
― Markham Shaw Pyle

“And how about doing the job we hired you gentlemen and ladies for? Start doing it by reading the legislation you pass. If you don’t know what it says, don’t vote for it.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

“If lawmakers in nations today refused to be bribed and be corrupted by some larger-than-life leaders, the people will be less insulted and molested by ungodliness and injustice.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“You are a lawmaker in your own right.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“The lawmakers possess the authority that commands the obedience of the people.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Lawmakers, who rarely have an insight of a truly progressive and civilized society, decide on the perimeters of law based on their biases and knacks, and rarely on actual scientific evidence. It's like asking the blind to show the path. So, for law to be of actual use in the society at our current evolutionary stage, it must be cooked in the vessel of scientific findings with the fire of reasoning and compassion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity