Top Legislator Quotes
You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.
Dick Murphy
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin
I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
Mark Shields
I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.
Michael N. Castle
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.
Aristotle
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You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.
Dick Murphy 
59% of people like this quote
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin
56% of people like this quote
I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
Mark Shields
51% of people like this quote
I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.
Michael N. Castle
48% of people like this quote
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.
Aristotle
46% of people like this quote
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
Mark Shields
45% of people like this quote
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
Bob Woodward
44% of people like this quote
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