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.

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.

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.