Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've watched as you have kept your oath to preserve and protect the Constitution.

John Roberts

The right to privacy is protected under the Constitution in various ways,

Jose Barroso

We will not have the constitution in the next years.

John Breaux

We do not have to have a trial. The Constitution says that the Senate shall be the sole trier of an impeachment resolution. It gives us the power to do it, but it doesn't demand that we have to,

Robert Bork

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution

Thomas Sowell

To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

Thomas Sowell

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.

Robert Anton Wilson

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

Vladimir Putin

First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Gore Vidal

Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.

He's literally the criminal law expert, the constitution law expert, he's the expert on search and seizure.

Ferdinand Mount

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

I've heard of Law Day. May 1 is Law Day and we often talk about the Constitution then.

John Walsh

I'm passionate about the Constitution and the rule of law and the issue of fairness and the issue of acceptance. This is a wonderful community. Why would we want to do something that drives a wedge between us?

Talk to me as a father, ... Just philosophically, what do you think? Not what the Constitution says, what do you feel?

John Conyers

creates a process grounded in the Constitution that is focused, fair, expeditious and deliberate.

It's an unusual step. It's a big step, but what the president did by consciously and intentionally violating the constitution and laws of this country with this illegal wiretapping has to be answered.

It was boredom. Essentially that's what he said at the time. The constitution gives the lieutenant governor no real responsibilities except to succeed the governor in the event of death or other impairment.

Pauline Hanson

It was always written up in our constitution that our positions were not concreted forever and a day, ... It is written in our constitution that our positions would go to the vote by the members of One Nation, so you see they have misread our constitution.

Patrick Sullivan

A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country, ... If one or two want to do it, that's fine but don't make it a holiday that everyone has to celebrate.

A law is a law and the constitution says he can't run,

John Thune

You're trying to pull together a lot of different people, a lot of different factions ... but I'm hopeful that when it's all said and done that they'll have a constitution that ultimately will be ratified by their government,

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.

The NUC skirmish is only a prelude...the real issue is in my view the new constitution.

Kevin Bleyer

Never mind what makes Canada's constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.

Kevin Bleyer

The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

John Roberts

I do think the right to privacy (used by the Supreme Court to declare a constitutional right to have an abortion) is protected under the Constitution in various ways.

Nasser Hussain

I don't see any significant difference with the new constitution,

The constitution will be a focus in 2007,

Bill Thomas

The Constitution requires that courts shall be open. It is the responsibility of the county and state to provide enough resources to run our courts in a dignified and efficient manner. The current state of things is a disgrace and a disservice to justice in our county.