We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

I'm tired but grateful: choosing to blend parenting and public service has made me a more confident mother and a better legislator.

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

I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing.

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.

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.

Sometimes evil is in the form of a malignant clown, and sometimes evil is in the form of policy and legislators, and sometimes it's a grinning death mask and it has something more viscerally terrifying about it.

We asserted ourselves as a music community and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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

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.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Energy and environmental regulation transportation and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models products and innovation.

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.