Legislator Quotes

You never know when domestic violence is going to happen... We're lucky to have such supportive legislators. - Beth Davis

You have those rare occasions when an issue gets a lot of publicity and coverage and that's when most legislators would vote in accordance with the mainstream views back home. But those are rare occasions. On most issues and most bills, the level of public concern and understanding is, frankly, very low. And when that goes down, the amount of power and influence lobbyists have in that (Statehouse) goes up. That is true on most issues. - Jess Brown

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator. - Dick Murphy

You got some choices in this race. You got a great lawyer. He's a wonderful man. He's a great lawyer. You got a man who spent his life in the Senate. He's a wonderful legislator. - Wesley Clark

You can't have 100 priorities. I mean, we have 47 days between now and the end of June (when legislators go home for the summer). - Rob Nicholson

Women legislators must take their part in every phase of legislative work. And it is real work - much of it is drudgery. - Edith Rogers

With 38 states either limiting eminent domain abuses or currently in the process of doing so, this is a grassroots movement of epic proportions. There is a real opportunity to change the law, and state legislators from both parties are taking notice. - Scott Bullock

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences. - John Adams

Wisconsin, for example, elected its first Latino state legislator. Michigan elected two during the decade. In the '90s, three Latinos were added in Massachusetts. - Rosalind Gold

Will be on the minds of every legislator when they come in for the next session. - Larry Gregory