Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Nelson

My wife (Bette) said it best. (Thursday) was Constitution Day. Our country is so fair that a guy can come over here, go to school, kick a field goal and he ends up being the star.

I will continue to fulfill my responsibilities to safeguard the Constitution, Lebanese laws and the integrity of Lebanese territory.

Ted Haggard

It is a violation of the Constitution for the IRS to threaten that church. It may not be a violation of IRS regulations, but IRS regulations have been wrong,

Asa Hutchinson

I think we should stick to the Constitution,

I still have frustration with the constitution. The president and vice-president should not be so tied on the ticket.

Francis Escudero

Peaceful protests are guaranteed by the constitution, rallies should not be prohibited.

Mike Malone

Part of the Constitution is the First Amendment, ... We have the right to disagree with the government.

Jalal Talabani

Some of our demands were met so the party has endorsed the constitution and is urging people to vote 'Yes',

Some in this state say they just want to amend the constitution like they were fixing a flat tire.

That does great violence -great violence - to the provision of the constitution ... which requires that a member sincerely represent the district in which he lives.

Billy Graham

The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity.

To those who are investigating me or others of my colleagues, please understand that I will not be intimidated by these efforts, ... These efforts will not deter me from performing my sworn duty under the Constitution as a member of Congress.

The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.

Bob Latta

Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.

Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

George Washington

Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country

James Bryce

We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.

David Souter

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

David Souter

Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.

Michael Badnarik

The reason that we can't find a relationship between the Constitution and the government is that there is none.

through peaceful means and dialogue within the framework of the Constitution and the law of the country.

Joseph Estrada

Why should I resign? ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

To be on the road and do that shows tremendous constitution and heart by our team.

Butch Otter

Our Constitution was put together for a free people.

Jose Mujica

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

Rebecca Brown

Yes, there is a topic (the Constitution), but what we have to think about is whether we think it is appropriate for the government to select a topic.

Chen Shui-bian

With sincerity, I swear to the people of this country that I will follow the constitution to increase the people's welfare and safeguard the country,

You had four members of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who suddenly found a right to same-sex marriage in the oldest written constitution still enforced in the world. That is a prime example of what we mean by judicial activism.

During every crisis that we've had, the president has taken power that isn't warranted by the Constitution. This is another example of it.

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

John Conyers

Everybody wanted to explain Rosa Parks and wanted to teach Rosa Parks, but Rosa Parks wasn't very interested in that, ... She wanted them to understand the government and to understand their rights and the Constitution that people are still trying to perfect today.

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States.