Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Durbin

This amendment ensures that any funds received by the owners of Evergreen Terrace will be used for the benefit of the residents, and it creates a system of accountability that makes sure that, at the end of the day, the tenants are the top priority.

Max Baucus

This is absurd. This is irresponsible. I strongly urge senators to consider what they're doing here tonight in supporting this amendment because, in a word I do not use lightly, this is an outrage.

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.

It's not perfect, but the amendment moves the bill from being a net negative to a net positive.

The report provides overwhelming evidence that the Byrd amendment has turned into a giant corporate and welfare program where a few large companies are reaping millions of dollars in subsidies based on overstated and unaudited qualifying expenditures,

You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.

Governments don't tax the exercise of constitutional freedoms, that's why we have municipal budgets and publicly funded police departments. People don't pay to exercise their First Amendment rights, that is contradictory to how the Constitution works.

For private employers, there is normally no special First Amendment right to get out of work to engage in a protest. A company might decide that it's good for morale to accommodate the exercise of freedom of speech on an issue that is very important to people, but that's an employment judgment not law.

Richard Land

If he doesn't change his mind and support this amendment he will have a virtually impossible task to win the Republican nomination.

I do think a constitutional amendment is needed.

Mathew Staver

I don't see that the city would have any compelling reason to prohibit her from displaying small flags in her windows. It's a violation of her First Amendment rights,

Mitt Romney

I am pleased that the compromise amendment before the Constitutional Convention was defeated. Now, we can work to put on the ballot a simpler amendment that simply defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

Jim Jeffords

I am not precluding the hope and belief that when the president fully understands what this means and what my amendment would mean, that we will hopefully have a change in attitude and that my goal is the same as John Breaux's. I would like to see us vote out a budget by 90 votes ... not just hanging on by a vote or two.

I don't think the First Amendment trumps everything.

Tom Price

I don't particularly like the idea of slaughtering horses; however, this amendment cuts funding for USDA inspectors and, as a result, would endanger consumer safety,

Larry Flynt

I believe in the First Amendment (freedom of speech) very strongly ... and there's no reason to quit now, ... All the support has been extremely amazing.

charts a path towards a longer-term solution through amendment of the Helms-Burton Act.

By approving the city of Chicago's O'Hare expansion plan, the FAA has done nothing less than authorize the desecration of St. Johannes Cemetery and promote the careless disregard for the First Amendment and federal religious freedom law.

David Souter

The law schools are taking a position on First Amendment grounds, and that position is in interference with military recruiting, no question about it.

The First Amendment was designed to protect the church from the state. It was not intended to protect the state from the church.

The First Amendment requires that compelled disclosure from journalists be a last resort, ... Apple must first investigate its own house before seeking to disturb the freedom of the press.

The first amendment problems were paramount for us. So we decided that the ban violated our rights and our advertisers' rights.

P. J. O'Rourke

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

The First Amendment only restricts governmental control of speech.

The First Amendment is not a shield for illegal conduct by journalists, or journalists' sources.

Antonin Scalia

The First Amendment has not repealed the ancient rule of life, that he who pays the piper calls the tune,

Tom Daschle

Their legislation actually creates a singles penalty that I believe will be the subject of further debate ... their amendment lopsidedly favors those at the very top of the economic scale at the expense of the middle class,

The truth is there is no $1 billion. This amendment is about deception.

This is a good amendment of Bayer's cardiology and hematology portfolio.

Steve Frank

The framers specifically created an amendment process that was difficult, but not impossible. They didn't want to make that change easily.

The court affirmed the idea of a vigorous public forum, and that's what's refreshing. The opinion sounds these First Amendment themes. The message is: If you don't like something, there is always more speech.