Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Byrd

And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote.

Carl Levin

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Louie Gohmert

The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

Gerald R. Ford

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Eula Biss

Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.

Eric Holder

Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.

We are pleased the court decided the Indiana Constitution prohibits the Evansville school corporation from imposing a fee for programs and services that are essential to young Hoosiers' education.

Today, a major step was taken toward the revision of the constitution.

Having two different structures of relationships creates a stigma the New Jersey constitution does not allow.

Richard Baker

It could have happened 100 years ago -- two powerful senators struggling with the meaning of the Constitution,

I think the document has to be read from a commonsense perspective. The constitution is not a suicide pact. In a sense, that has to be the answer.

John Jay Hooker

It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.

Corrine Brown

Historically, amendments to the Constitution have been utilized as a tool to protect or defend the rights and liberties of American citizens.

Ahmed Chalabi

We look forward for cooperation with the U.N. in establishing and drafting a constitution,

Ken Buck

While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion.

Sam Brownback

He did not say in my private meeting with him whether or not the right to privacy regarding sexual relations is in the Constitution or not in the Constitution,

Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.

He knows that the constitution will not pass the Legislative Yuan.

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

Frank Pavone

But the American people are already deciding that their Constitution does not permit dismembering children,

Jack Reed

He has not convinced me that he will not uphold just the letter of the Constitution, but the spirit of the Constitution as well,

John Roberts

If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, then the little guy's going to win in the court before me, ... But if the Constitution says that the big guy should win, well then the big guy's going to win because my obligation is to the Constitution.

John Roberts

If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, the little guy's going to win in court before me, ... But if the Constitution says that the big guy should win, well, then the big guy's going to win.

If the constitution passes in a non-amicable way, the violence will increase.

If the constitution is adopted, it will be over the objections of the Sunni leadership. To expect that to be able to resolve the insurgency is simply unrealistic.

Daniel Pipes

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

Alberto Gonzales

There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.

Andrew Johnson

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

The executive power of our country is not an imperial power. The president has demonstrated a dangerous disregard for our Constitution and our laws with his authorization for this illegal program.

Our view is that the constitution of the Philippines and the rule of law must be respected and violence must be rejected. We hope the situation will return to normal.

Rob Woodall

Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't need federal prisons. We need state crimes and state prisons.

Really, we are disappointed with that. It seems like the Americans want to have a constitution at any cost,