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What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

I love working the legislative process.

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.

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.

I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.