Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Cheney

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

It is up to us to let people know what is very important and passing a class-size amendment is very important.

It's a good day for democracy in Illinois and for the First Amendment and the freedoms it gives citizens to speak and assemble. Everyone should be free to conduct a funeral without the harassment of a hate group.

Sarah Brady

They are looking only to protect gun owners' quote - and I stress that - rights, because I don't believe gun owners have rights. The Second Amendment has never been interpreted that way. Now I am not for taking guns away or denying guns to law-abiding citizens, but I don't think it's a constitutional right that they have, and every court case that's ever come down has shown that.

It's limited enough that you're not unduly focusing on anyone's First Amendment rights.

It should not be the end of the privacy debate to say that technological change takes information outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment as interpreted by the courts 25 years ago, ... What we need is to translate the Fourth Amendment's vision of limited government power and personal privacy to the global, decentralized, networked environment of the Internet.

It's good to see that the kids are practicing what they're learning in their government classes. They know their First Amendment rights.

Chris Barron

The Ninth Amendment makes it clear that all the rights spelled out in the Constitution aren't the end of rights as we know them. It makes it clear that there are rights reserved to people that aren't spelled out in the Constitution.

Michael Chabon

It just made sense to apply this on a grander scale. If one of us can raise that much for a nonprofit on his own, what could a dozen or more authors pull in for the First Amendment Project?

It is very possible before the Human Life Amendment gets to the Supreme Court that another justice might also retire.

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.

As we look at the state's budget system and recent history, the problems we have are late budgets, out-of-control spending and the nation's highest tax burden. This amendment would make all of them worse.

As was widely reported, an amendment was attached to the Senate version of an appropriations bill which would have categorically banned our transaction, ... It is our understanding that that language has been removed, but the final budget has not been approved.

The more (the government) can figure out who the surfers are, the more peoples' First Amendment rights are in jeopardy.

I plan to ask about First Amendment issues, ... Is the superintendent within his legal rights to suspend her without pay? It's really a legal analysis.

Robert Torricelli

Clearly this test the limits of constitutionality under First Amendment laws, ... I think it's very difficult to legally and constitutionally to say to third party groups that they can't spend their money the way they want to.

CITAC congratulates Congress for repealing the Byrd Amendment. As recently as last month, many experts were saying we would never obtain congressional repeal of the Byrd Amendment during the current session.

Jim Cooper

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

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,

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.

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

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.

Jonathan Turley

It's hard to describe how many parts of the U.S. Constitution this law actually violates . . . It interferes with constitutional guarantees regarding contracts (to rent rooms), families, equal protection, even First Amendment issues like freedom of association. ... It's hard to believe any attorney actually reviewed this law.

This issue of the amendment ranks dead last on a list of priorities for voters.