Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ryan

This text amendment to our zoning code is a welcome and needed provision. It allows for the local elected officials to not have their hands tied in making decisions for future development requests.

Bill Self

The tournament loss was obviously very disappointing. But I think this team can get a lot better. With another piece or two, this team could become great. We could probably use another big guy and a perimeter shooter. The good thing is these guys have a chance to come back next year and try to make amends as much as we can.

We welcome today's lease amendment, and when that amendment becomes final, we will immediately begin to examine available options in San Diego County. The Chargers are very hopeful that the amendment will result in the building of a new Super Bowl-caliber stadium in San Diego County.

The public input is essential to the overall process. I won't say that the charter is strengthened by this process but it is a very positive step to have the charter reviewed and essentially clarified where needed, or amended as needed. The process of reviewing the charter should be viewed as a positive step overall.

Tom Daschle

We feel very strongly that this wasn't the approach in which we would have chosen to debate this incredibly important issue, ... We are having to deal with very unfair and very unfortunate circumstances, so we will present our case through the amendment process.

We felt that under the First Amendment free speech protections that we did not have the right to, based on content, refuse the ad.

We are very alarmed that our First Amendment rights have been undermined to the degree that the city of Boston now thinks the rights of free expression, the right to rally and protest means you get out into an area like this.

Antonin Scalia

We are unwilling to send police and judges into a new thicket of 4th Amendment law, to seek a creature of uncertain description that is neither a plain-view inspection nor yet a ""full-blown search.

We're very happy the Senate chose to keep the full text of the amendment as the ballot question. It's really important that voters know what their vote will mean when they cast it in November. We look forward to having that discussion with the voters.

Arkansas is the only state in the country that has a Constitutional amendment limiting interest to 17 percent.

The intent had been to provide them with $1 million each. There was not as much in (the budget) as initially thought. We're going to be able to correct it with a floor amendment tomorrow.

The Michigan courts would not acknowledge this man's First Amendment rights, but we're confident that the federal court will. He was punished for insisting on the right to practice Catholicism and refusing conversion to the Pentecostal faith.

The military must be very careful in not violating an individual's First Amendment rights,

Jerry Yang

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make no law (abridging the freedom of speech).' No law, period.

In contrast to the prescribed right to statewide referendum process, there is no affirmative right under the Maine Constitution which enables citizens to enact local ordinances by petition. This conclusion is in accordance with Maine law.... In conclusion, the city drafted the charter to provide for a citizen's initiative process and the city can amend the charter to limit that process. The proposed amendment is in accordance with state and federal constitutions, as well as state statute.

In Cyberspace, the 1st Amendment is a local ordinance

John McCain

I know that money corrupts. I would rather have a clean government than one where ""First Amendment rights are being respected,"" that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government.

It's unfortunate that those that oppose the marriage amendment are using issues like domestic violence as scare tactics.

David Daniels

The biggest concern with that amendment are annual increases with no decreases. If we have substantial bad economic times, it continues to go up.

Thomas Jefferson

The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

The bankruptcy law was not intended to attack physicians but it is the law of unintended consequences. You just can't look at the bankruptcy law in isolation. You must look at it in the context of Amendment 8, the 'three strikes' law.

It's important that kids feel free to exercise their First Amendment rights, but they should also know that it isn't without consequences.

Anthony Romero

It's increasingly clear that the government is involved in political surveillance of organizations that are involved in nothing more than lawful First Amendment activities, ... It raises very serious questions about whether the FBI is back to its old tricks.

This is clearly a First Amendment issue and my clients had the right to do what they did.

Once people have a chance to see the entire exhibit, I think that will help them understand the content better. The artists here are just celebrating their First Amendment rights.

Jeb Bush

Not making a good-faith effort to implement this after the state has voted and Broward County has voted, to have it be back on the ballot I think is wrong, ... Having said that, you could implement it and then put it back on the ballot -- another constitutional amendment -- and that would be fair game.

Jeb Hensarling

The newest battlefield in the fight to protect the First Amendment is the Internet, ... The Internet is the new town square, and campaign finance regulations are not appropriate there.

It's never been amended to the detriment of the development community.

I truly understand the passion about where your child goes to school but dealing with it as proposed is just plain wrong and contradicts the idea of 'less government' where it doesn't belong. I also understand the politics here, I know the predicament the Governor will be placed in if the bill reaches his desk, and I ask each of you to do the right thing regardless of the political consequences and not sign the amended bill.

Anthony Principi

I, too, strongly support this amendment ... it is a superb depot and they are doing a great job in this period of war.

Wayne LaPierre

It's a historic piece of legislation. As of Oct. 20, the Second Amendment is probably in the best shape in this country that it's been in decades.

Bob Barr

It is under assault as never before as a result of the mindset of 9/11, in which fear, rather than good public policy, has taken over. The Fourth Amendment says, I think quite clearly, that each of us is clothed in a sphere of privacy, and that the government cannot pierce that sphere of privacy unless it has a good reason for doing so.