Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

This means the constitution will stay as it is for decades to come.

Ferdinand Mount

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

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,

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.

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 constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written

John Roberts

What Daniel Webster termed 'the miracle of our Constitution' is not something that happens every generation,

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,

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.

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

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

Roger Pilon

There's irony in using an unconstitutional measure to promote Constitution Day.

Bruce Fein

There's nothing to suggest that in 60 years, she's ever thought or written a word about the U.S. Constitution. This is an opportunity squandered.

Rand Paul

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

Ted Cruz

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

Ted Cruz

I'm a constitutionalist. You know, does faith matter to me? Sure. But the beauty of the Constitution, the beauty of the First Amendment, it protects everyone's faith.

I mean, it's shocking when you see how easily they fold in the media today. They don't stand their ground. You know, if they are criticized by the White House, they just fall apart. I mean, come on, toughen up, guys. It's only our Constitution and our country at stake. Let's get some spine going here.

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?

If one little item is determined to be unconstitutional the whole (legislation) is going to fall.

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.

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

Rush Limbaugh

In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the Constitution, willing to follow the law. Obama doesn't care. He is the law.

Intimidation by extreme rhetoric and the threat of physical violence threatens judges as well as the Constitution itself,

In the abstract, it's a good idea that students know more about the Constitution. Civics has been squeezed out of the curriculum.

His main interest is to push the constitution on time, no matter what the constitution has in it.

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