Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louie Gohmert

It does not help when an administration, in response to American attacks on American soil and American individuals, the administration ends up asking Americans to give up their First Amendment rights for which our service members are fighting.

Hank Johnson

The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.

We do endorse and fully support First Amendment rights, but walking out of school during school hours is not appropriate. They can protest, but they have to find appropriate venues to do so, not leaving class or disrupting the school day.

Roxane Gay

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

Rand Paul

Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.

Rand Paul

The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

The decision today says the First Amendment protects you to protest peacefully. So -- go do it!

The debate in the party was, should we participate in these elections and therefore legitimize a piecemeal amendment to this crucial document?

Network neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet. Net neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online - and the public demands Congress not dismantle it.

Sam Brownback

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly, ... The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

Ariel Sharon

There is a problem with the law on compensating victims of terrorism, ... formulate an amendment to the law and sort out this problem as soon as possible.

Jon Corzine

I believe (that) the fundamental and traditional view of marriage is between a man and a woman. On the other hand, I don't believe constitutions are about taking away rights. That's why I wouldn't have supported an amendment in the federal government and I won't support one in New Jersey.

Jonathan Kozol

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

But we certainly have encouraged the leadership in Congress to schedule votes on the amendment to be sure every senator and representative will be on record on this amendment before they face the voters in November.

More money will definitely help with the class size amendment to build schools, hire teachers and pay them a living wage to actually buy a home and live in our community.

New Jersey is a unique state nationally when it comes to this issue. That became very clear with a governor's race in which candidates on both sides opposed an amendment to the state constitution that would limit marriage to a man and a woman.

From my point of view, he's falling on the side of exercising his First Amendment right to voice his opinion. He's not using the mechanisms of campaigning to do it. He's just writing some letters.

Jessi Klein

I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does.

Jessi Klein

If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't do it. Then again... I don't want to paint myself into a corner on this one. Let me think about it.

I don't believe First Amendment rights are being infringed,

Charles Haynes

I believe this really upholds the First Amendment and is sound educationally.

Floyd Abrams

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

Eliot Spitzer

Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes.

Jim Jordan

What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren't stupid, they're just bad.

What we should be doing in this amendment is to provide every single dollar that we need to conduct the operation now going on in Kosovo. We should not provide one dime less and neither should we try to use this to play games with the budget.

Just like the Berlin Wall, the Wright Amendment will fall.

I think in the future it will provide more precautions for people who are exercising their First Amendment rights and at the same time give police officers a clear directive as to how to handle those situations.

Sam Brownback

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

What you had was a lot of young volunteers who, frankly, objected to this election being decided behind closed doors, without the media having a full view and without our observers having a full view. We executed our First Amendment rights in a peaceful manner, with full decorum.

David Keene

Her Second Amendment positions would lose her the primary in North Carolina unless she modifies them.

Everett Dirksen

Here we are considering an amendment increasing an already huge appropriation by $1,000,000,000. It is like using a teaspoon in order to get a few taxes into the Treasury and at the same time at the back door using a scoop shovel to shovel them out.

Bob Barr

It concerns me greatly. It clearly raises serious concerns about First Amendment rights.

Mike McGavick

I though it appropriate ... that I drop by and let him know that it was my view that changing the Magnuson amendment was unacceptable in my state, and that view crossed all party lines.