Tom Tancredo

Although I am proud of all supporters, especially those legislators who have had the guts to buck the party and support me, there are some supporters who risk more than their political careers. They risk the wrath of extremists and even their livelihood for publicly supporting me.

American Politician

Liz Cheney

I am strongly pro-life, and I am not pro-gay marriage. I believe the issue of marriage must be decided by the states and by the people in the states - not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves.

Henry Cuellar

And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it's my responsibility to read the amendments.

James L. Buckley

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

Josiah Warren

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

American Inventor

William Howard Taft

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

American President

Patricia Polacco

I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

American Author

Robert Zoellick

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

American Public Servant

Rob Portman

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.

Lucy McBath

It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.

Legislators often take part in debates and committees to discuss new laws.

Political Role

Legislators are usually elected by voters to represent them in a legislative body.

Election Process

Legislators not only make laws but can also amend or repeal existing ones.

Law Creation

 That's probably a topic that is best reserved for a room full of lawyers and judges. Instead, let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish, because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers, when taxpayers and citizens,

Lessons from death row...

 Cars and trucks add up to about 25 percent of the world's CO2 emissions. We have to come and attack this problem with a focus, with an effort that actually says, we're going to go to zero before the world ends. I actually shared that with some legislators here in the U.S.

Shai Agassi: A new...

 lawyers and judges instead let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers when taxpayers and citizens agree that that's what we ought to be

 for exaggerating the purported health benefits of its yogurt. And I can tell you about the legislator who despite heavy lobbying directed at both sides of the aisle pushes for environmental protections. These are isolated examples,

In praise of conflict PIPE...

 to look for things that were obviously racist, fewer people were looking into the current-day policy stances of legislators who probably did blackface but didn't get caught. So, how many of us might have supported a candidate

Candis Watts Smith: 3...

 without providing the institutional support that facilitates that mother-infant bonding to support breastfeeding? The answer we can't. I'm talking to you, legislators, and the voters who elect them.

What we don't know about...

 my thoughts on the uplifting topic of political polarization in our country I want to make three historical points quickly and I hope excessively to you first the way we elect legislators our

Why political...

 and work with them to make sure our rights are protected. But equally important, we've got to ensure that we elect -- and I'd actually say more important -- is we've got to elect legislators,

The End of Roe v. Wade...

 Their essay would go viral, get translated into many languages, get debated at pubs and coffee houses and salons, and at dinner parties, and influence leaders, legislators, popular opinion.

Steven Pinker and...

 rare one our legislators began to see petroglyphs here that are the same as those in the bottom of the Grand Canyon a certain clan symbol a certain way of making a