Quotes on Legislator

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

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.

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.

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.