Lawmakers Quotes

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism. - Jim Ryun

Within the LDP, there are now very few who speak out as loudly (for farmers) as in the past and the number of farm-related lawmakers with rational views has grown. - Kaoru Yosano

With this rigged system, lawmakers are choosing their voters rather than voters choosing their lawmakers. - Rachel Leon

With limits on the rights of victims of medical negligence, insurance companies spend less money on patients and more money on insurance company lawyers, but insurers do not lower rates for doctors. Lawmakers looking to California as a model for malpractice insurance reform must understand that regulation worked and liability caps did not. - Doug Heller

While voters think the legislative pay raise is excessive and want it repealed, it does not appear that lawmakers will suffer greatly at the polls for making themselves the second-best paid Legislature in the country. - Clay F. Richards

While the Legislature adjourned with little success, the need for education reform is simply too great to wait for lawmakers to overcome their differences. - Rick Perry

When you listen to the way some of the lawmakers have talked about it, they've been talking about it as if this company is going to control the whole port of New York and New Jersey. That's very far from the case. - Robert Wright

When we base the right of access on the media, it begins to be viewed by lawmakers as a special interest. It is absolutely critical that we broaden the conversation and make it about the people's right to access, and not the media's right to access. - Charles Davis

When the church has a position, it tends to be categorical. Lawmakers want their interest groups to take half a loaf and the church isn't eager to bargain. They want it their way. - Jeffrey Berry