Legislative Debates Quotes & Sayings

While floor statements from today's [congressional] representatives are typically delivered to empty galleries and published into unread oblivion, legislative debates in the Reconstruction era were widely disseminated and closely observed. — Andrew Buttaro

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career. — Nicole Kidman

He said he wanted a Happy Meal. — Wally Lamb

The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children to read bills, laws, court cases, legislative debates, executive decrees, and bureaucratic policies. They read them in schoolrooms and at home ... They said they would consider their children uneducated if they didn't read such things. — Oliver DeMille

I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me. — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that. And the primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit. The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. — Joe Biden

'Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated. — Busy Philipps

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled. — Itzhak Perlman

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. — Thomas Sankara

The spiritual path means making a path rather than following one. — Mark Epstein

Children have fewer rights than almost any other group and fewer institutions protecting these rights. Consequently, their voices and needs are almost completely absent from the debates, policies, and legislative practices that are constructed in terms of their needs. — Henry A. Giroux