In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.
Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.
Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.
Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign.
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.
The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.
I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.
I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.
I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.
When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.