LEGISLATION
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
—ULYSSES S. GRANT
“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”
—THEODORE ROOSEVELT
“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.”
—WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
“The most dangerous animal in the United States is the man with an emotion and a desire to pass a new law.”
—HERBERT HOOVER
“I can’t think of any existing law that’s in force that wasn’t before.”
—GEORGE H. W. BUSH
“Obviously I don’t support it, but I support the impulses that are giving rise to it.”
—BILL CLINTON, on the Balanced Budget Amendment