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The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules.
James P. Gorman
Time
Architecture
Sense
Complex
Rules
Thousands
Observed
Dodd-Frank
Makes
Effort
Same
Same Time
Legislators
Produced
Act
Pages
Basic
Number
And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.
John Hutton
Business
Goals
Past
Too
Meet
Broader
Has-Been
Easy
Costs
Onto
Consumers
Been
Legislators
Order
In The Past
Social
Means
Load
Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.
John Paul Stevens
Duty
State
Officials
Legislators
Public
Act
Public Officials
Including
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.
Karyn Kusama
Death
Sometimes
Evil
Mask
Clown
About
Something
More
Policy
Terrifying
Legislators
Form
Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges.
Letitia James
Challenges
Competition
Face
Nation
Drawn
Districts
Rarely
Lawmakers
Around
Up
Precision
Legislators
Aversion
Perverse
Competitive
When I first got asked to run for the state Senate, I was asked by a number of legislators I had worked with, and I thanked them and declined.
Maggie Hassan
First
State
Run
Had
Got
Senate
Legislators
Them
Declined
Worked
Asked
Number
We have to continue to raise awareness as the Voting Rights Caucus... make sure people call into their state legislators. Let us know that they've decided they weren't going to vote because they heard it was a hassle.
Marc Veasey
Vote
Rights
People
Voting
Awareness
State
Hassle
Know
Voting Rights
Make
Call
Sure
Because
Caucus
Were
Continue
Heard
Going
Legislators
Decided
Us
Let Us
Raise
The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.
Mark Shields
Important
Stretched
About
Understand
Occupy
Important Thing
Issues
Legislators
Them
Interests
Thin
Thing
Dozens
Competing
It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted.
Michael Schiavo
Me
Money
About
Terri
Legislators
Wanted
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
Ralph Nader
People
Corporate
Thunder
Hear
Legislators
Turn
Grips
Fascinating
Usual
Growing
Away
Watch
People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
Ralph Regula
You
People
Own
Group
Impact
Area
Through
Part
Contact
Underestimate
Ideas
Legislators
Being
Process
Interest
Your
Organized
Multiply
Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere.
Rashida Tlaib
Neighborhoods
Members
City
City Council
Council
Come
Come And Go
Go
Legislators
Mayors
Anywhere
While the debate over banned books usually seems to happen just outside the gates of government, it takes on a new danger and urgency when legislators get involved. Their actions cause voices to be silenced both inside and outside the books. That's un-American.
Terrance Hayes
Government
Cause
Debate
Books
Danger
Un-American
Silenced
Inside
Seems
Both
Voices
Outside
Takes
Over
New
Involved
Get
Just
Legislators
Banned
Happen
While
Urgency
Actions
Gates
As a district judge, I view my role quite differently than the role of legislators.
Thomas Hardiman
Judge
District
Than
Role
Quite
Legislators
View
Differently
As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'
Todd Young
Phone
Congress
Too
Pen
Bad
Responsible
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Without
Handing
Trying
Legislate
Often
Legislators
Them
Although I am proud of all supporters, especially those legislators who have had the guts to buck the party and support me, there are some supporters who risk more than their political careers. They risk the wrath of extremists and even their livelihood for publicly supporting me.
Tom Tancredo
Me
Political
Party
Extremists
Those
Some
Wrath
Guts
Risk
More
Buck
Had
Support
Supporters
Supporting
Although
Proud
Am
Than
Legislators
Who
Even
Livelihood
Publicly
Careers
Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.
Walker Stapleton
Needs
Debate
Patient
Bypass
Pension
Entire
Through
Demand
Go
Reform
Just
Legislators
Should
Apply
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
Rand Paul
Day
You
Balance
End Of The Day
Become
Out
Find
Step
Balanced
Force
End
Up
Legislators
Where
Cut
Then
I think even pro-China legislators would not believe I'm really a CIA agent.
Joshua Wong
CIA
Believe
Think
I Think
Would
Legislators
Agent
Really
Even
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