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I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.
I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.
I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
I was born into public service.
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.
I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.
Congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless
I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.
CHAPTER XXIX THE SENATOR'S LETTER
[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.
A man with a club is a law-maker.
The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
Studied law, but not qualified to practice it.
In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
Been talking to politicians I see. Yeah, I broke the law. Upon request.
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.
I do politics in order to do policy.
I'm not a politician; I'm an artist.
What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?
Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?
I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.
I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.
I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury.
The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.
the representative committee,
Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.
I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.
Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.
I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.
I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.
They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.
I'd worked in the state senate in college and seen how important legal decisions were. And at the last minute, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said, 'Why don't you come do an internship?' That turned into almost 15 years in the government, in the White House, and at the State Department.
Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
Honey," Bessie's mamma used to say, "politicians and judges and coppers are money-grubbing thieves. They'll screw you, and rob you, and win elections for doing it, but there's no way around them. Smile and pay the sonsabitches off." The
I am very simple and kind of a man to be a politician.
One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.
I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just! - - - Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER
Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
We are not made for law, we are made for love.
I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.
Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.
Most people hates politicians and politics itself:but always vote during election to elect a president. I am always tempted to ask who a politician is ?
A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun.
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.
[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.
But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the sanction and the support of a preponderating force, it must finally place this force in the hands of those who legislate. This
To me, a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there is a problem the lawyer is the only person who has read the inside of the top of the box.
Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
In the distance, a building explodes in flame. She has over a hundred men working this district, letting everyone feel the pain of real enforcement. Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. People have forgotten this.
A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.
The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.
I'm not a public official. I'm a businessman, I'm a builder, I'm a planner.
Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall.
A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.
The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
for politics is a cesspool of lying lawyers,
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer.
I'm a Congressman, and can do whatever I want
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.
The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy,
Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.
Politicians are crooks!
I have a Congress on my hands.
A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.
I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.
What does an actor know about politics?
law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law