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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Business Men Better Special

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Army First Greatest Liberation

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Hands Punishment Crime Last

In Congress, there are some who are unashamed to aspire to eloquence, even to scholarship, but the only state legislator I ever knew who would not join in the mispronounceciation of a word for the sake of camaraderie with her fellows was former State Senator and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

Some Only Congress Her

I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.

Me Street Things Big

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

Me White Head Tan

The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.

Cesare Beccaria

Society Punishment Only Authority

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

George McGovern

Knowledge Me Problems White

I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done.

Life I Am Think Serious

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

Think Serious Done Trying

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Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.

Man Problems He Mankind

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

You Trouble Talk Listen

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country's welfare, lest it should perish by knowing no bounds.

Country Pretend Who Welfare

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

Effort Think Bridge Meet

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

Group Attention Your Pay Attention

I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, the best legislator I can be. When I'm home, I'm home. I try to not do legislative stuff. That brings a balance to life.

Life Best Home Balance

I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.

Good Bad Things Some

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Doctor Medical Decisions Room

My concept of hitting the ground running and being an effective legislator is to focus on my district and having really good constituent work.

Work Good Focus Being

I've never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average person is thinking more about what I've accomplished in my professional career and what I've accomplished in my career as a legislator.

Education Me People Thinking

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

Margrethe Vestager

Good Realize Years Different

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Democracy Law Judge Never

Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.

Health Political Safety Single

I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

Good You People Mind

I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Loved Secret Being Made

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