“The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a repudiation of the Third Commandment's prohibition of freedom of speech. The Thirteenth Amendment repudiates the institution of slavery which is so cozily assumed by the Fourth and Tenth Protestant Commandments.” FirstsReligiousAtheismSpeechThirdsConstitutionInstitutionsSlaveryPositive AtheismAmendmentsFourthFreedom Of SpeechCommandmentsFirst AmendmentProhibitionProtestantsEloquentReligious FreedomUs ConstitutionThirteenth Amendment Author:Frank Zindler
“Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?” IfsEndsGovernmentPoliticalCoursesPoliticsConstitutionFoundationCongressGravityProvisionUsurpation Author:Stephen Johnson Field
“I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.” CountryConstitutionPressesFree Press Author:Peter Pace
“While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal - getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope of the power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society.” PeopleWantLongRealStatesDoneHandsGovernmentCertainGoalPresidentUnitedUnited StatesRecordsGroupsJudgingOfficeEmpathyConstitutionFundamentalsTrackDecadesBarackConsistentRejectsRestraintFederal GovernmentExpandingScopeAlliancesConcealedPresident Barack ObamaAmerican SocietyConstitution Of The United StatesTrack Record Author:Thomas Sowell
“For people who must fear for their lives because of their religion or political convictions, the protection provided by Article 16a of the German constitution, the right to asylum, applies. Nobody is questioning that. Irrespective of that, there is immigration that must be regulated, to bring skilled personnel to Germany, for example. We have to establish criteria for that. Their affiliation with the Christian-Western culture should be one of them.” PeopleShouldChristianPoliticalCultureExampleConstitutionWesternConvictionProtectionImmigrationGermanyArticlesQuestioningCriteriaAsylumsPersonnelWestern CultureAffiliation Author:Horst Seehofer
“The Constitution of India seeks to guarantee respect for the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, and the integrity of the electoral process. But time and again, provisions of the Constitution of India have been flagrantly violated in Kashmir, and the ideals that it enshrines have been forgotten.” Has BeensLawProcessIntegrityIdealsIndiaConstitutionIndependenceForgottenGuaranteesProvisionRule Of LawJudiciaryKashmirElectoral Process Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“In Kashmir, rights relating to life, liberty, dignity of the people, and freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, embodied in the fundamental covenants and enforceable by courts of law, have been gravely violated.” PeopleHas BeensLawLibertyRightsExpressionDignityConstitutionFundamentalsCourtCovenantFreedom Of ExpressionKashmir Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James Madison, he was pretty clear about it.” IfsWayFactsClearRightsConstitutionMajorityIncludingMinoritiesMadisonFramers Author:Noam Chomsky
“For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.” YearsHas BeensLastsStruggleRightsCoupleHundredConstitutionAmendmentsFifthPersonal Rights Author:Noam Chomsky
“Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.” GivingHumansFactsThreeRightsConstitutionSlaveAfrican AmericanVotingOwnersRight To VoteSlave Owners Author:Noam Chomsky
“Under the constitution, as the Danish queen I am bound to the Lutheran faith, but that does not exclude people of other faiths.” PeopleDoeConstitutionBoundsQueensDanishLutherans Author:Margrethe II of Denmark
“Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular acts was hardly his concern. The psychology of his day was hedonistic and he worked in that framework and passed it on to Mill, but it is clear as day that Mill was not a hedonist in the sense in which we use that term today, though he used the language of pleasure and pain to express his views.” WritingUseLightTodayPainUsedLanguageTermPleasureViewsClearPsychologyParticularConcernConstitutionReformFrameworkMillsEvaluationPain And PleasureUtilitarianismHedonisticHedonist Author:Dale Jamieson
“U.S. Constitution is under attack from Fundamentalist Islam and shari'a.” ConstitutionIslamFundamentalist Author:Pamela Geller
“Islamic Religious Law Fundamentalist Islam wants shari'a to replace the U.S. Constitution and fundamentally transform America.” WantAmericaLawReligiousConstitutionIslamIslamicFundamentalist Author:Pamela Geller
“The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had 63,000 people registered on the Freedom Registration form. And we tried from every level to go into the regular Democratic Party medium. We tried from the precinct level. The 16th of June when they were holding precinct meetings all across the state, I was there and there was eight of us there to attend the meeting, and they had the door locked at 10 o'clock in the morning. This is what's happening in the State of Mississippi.” PeopleStatesFormLevelsPartyMorningDoorsHappeningsConstitutionDemocraticMeetingsEightMediumsClockInterpretationLockedJuneDemocratic PartyMississippiRegistration Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“That was an extremely unhelpful thing for Bill Shorten to say because those of us - and as the Attorney-General I've been closely involved in this along with my colleague Nigel Scullion, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs - what we have been trying to do for some years now, throughout the life of the Coalition Government in fact, is to bring the Australian people on a journey with us - conservative Australians as well as more progressive Australians, to persuade them that it is a seemly and fitting and decent and appropriate thing to recognise the first Australians in the Constitution.” PeopleTryingYearsFirstsWellsHas BeensFactsGovernmentJourneyInvolvedConstitutionBillsAffairConservativeMinistersDecentAppropriateProgressiveColleaguesIndigenousAustralianFittingRecogniseAttorneyCoalitions Author:George Brandis
“I would hope that the Senate would do its job and confirm the nominee that President [Barack] Obama has sent to them. That's the way the Constitution fundamentally should operate. The president nominates, and then the Senate advises and consents, or not, but they go forward with the process.” WayShouldJobsProcessPresidentConstitutionBarackSenateConsentAdvisePresident Barack Obama Author:Hillary Clinton
“We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldBelieveKindCultureBeliefReligiousConscienceConstitutionIncludingAtheistGuaranteesReligious Belief Author:Barack Obama
“There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive order that violates the Constitution. That is, it doesn't matter here what you think about immigration: here you cannot violate the nation's Constitution, period.” ThinkingWayMatterOrderNationsPeriodsConstitutionSolveImmigrationOne WayExecutivesLegislationUnconstitutionalExecutive Orders Author:Marco Rubio
“I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.” FirstsWarHeardNew YorkConversationConstitutionInternationalSquaresVietnamMarineIntroductionArrestedMerchantsAthensMerchant Marine Author:Bill Ayers
“I am a constitutionalist. I believe in the constitution. I don't believe in altering the constitution.” BelieveI BelieveConstitutionDon't BelieveI Believe In Author:Andrew Breitbart
“The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.” StatesPresidentUnitedNumbersUnited StatesConstitutionConstitution Of The United States Author:Rudy Giuliani
“That so much power over the U.S. nuclear arsenal is placed in the hands of one man - any man - bodes ill for humanity, while completely undermining the war power granted to Congress in the U.S. constitution.” MenWarHandsHumanityConstitutionCongressIllNuclearGrantedOne ManArsenalUndermining Author:David Krieger
“If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or unable to carry it through - then that person, that prosecutor, in an unreviewable fashion gets to second-guess the United States? That is unacceptable. That is an assertion of authority over and above the U.S. Constitution.” IfsPersonsStatesUnitedUnited StatesFashionAuthorityConstitutionInvestigationUnwillingAssertionProsecutor Author:John Bolton
“There is relief coming. This is good for America. This means that we can lift the oppressive weight of the regulatory state. We can restore the Constitution.” MeanStatesAmericaWeightConstitutionLiftsRelief Author:Paul Ryan
“I believe in the principles that built America, I believe in the Constitution.” BelieveAmericaI BelievePrinciplesBuiltConstitutionI Believe In Author:Paul Ryan
“The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.” ClearCitizensConstitutionCongressAmendmentsSoleDefiningDiscretion14th Amendment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Constitution says nothing about anchor babies. The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship.” BabyConstitutionAmendmentsCitizenshipAnchorsBirthright14th Amendment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.” CitizensConstitutionCongress Author:Rush Limbaugh
“They want people to believe the Constitution says that if you are born to on a illegal alien mother, that you are automatically an American citizen. They want to insist that that's what the Constitution says, but it doesn't.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveMotherBornCitizensConstitutionAliensIllegalAmerican CitizensIllegal Aliens Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how. To automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, no, we can't change that. Amending the Constitution, not possible, takes too long. We gotta find another way of dealing with this. No, we don't, because it's not there. You don't have to amend the Constitution.” WayLongCitizensConstitutionCongressGrantsAmendmentsCitizenshipAnother WayCan't ChangeBirthrightAmending The Constitution14th Amendment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I pray for what I have always prayed for: the restoration of our constitution and absolute freedom for the people of Cuba. That dream is very much alive, that fight is very much alive.” PeopleDreamFightingAlivePrayingConstitutionAbsolutesI PrayCubaRestorationAbsolute Freedom Author:Andy Garcia
“The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That`s not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore.” LawPresidentShareConstitutionCongressSections Author:Chuck Todd
“The first thing [Donald Trump] does on January 20th is take an oath to defend and adhere to the Constitution of the United States.” FirstsDoeStatesUnitedUnited StatesTrumpConstitutionOathJanuaryConstitution Of The United States Author:Chuck Todd
“[Donald Trump] needs to take action today before he becomes president so he doesn`t violate the Constitution.” NeedsTodayActionPresidentTrumpConstitution Author:Chuck Todd
“Once Donald Trump takes the oath of office as president of the United States, the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution makes it clear that he cannot accept those favors.” StatesPresidentUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesClearTrumpOfficeConstitutionFavorsOathClausesOath Of Office Author:Chuck Todd
“Every president since George Washington has respected this clause in the Constitution. We want to avoid that Constitutional potential crisis. And the way to do it is for Donald Trump - it`s not about him.” WayWantPresidentTrumpConstitutionCrisisClauses Author:Chuck Todd
“The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically barred or regulated by the [Constitution] is LEGAL.” GovernmentAmericaFormRepublicanConstitutionForms Of Government Author:Bernard von NotHaus
“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.” GovernmentTodayPoliticalLibertyDemocracyRightsConstitutionBillsCongressLibertarianUsaAmendmentsLibertarianismCommitteesBill Of Rights Author:F. Lee Bailey
“It's very important to face the grief, face the anger, and then get into a place where you are ready to fight because if you go back to the history of the United States of America, our Founders said we're giving you a Republic if you can keep it, and they also said we have a Constitution and we're going to form a more perfect union.” IfsGivingSaidImportantStatesAmericaFacesFormFightingPerfectUnitedGriefUnited StatesReadyConstitutionUnionsWhere You AreRepublicFoundersUnited States Of America Author:Barbara Boxer
“Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.” DoeStatesConstitutionWinnerRestriction Author:Lawrence Lessig
“The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of law, and we've been very lucky there.” ReasonAmericaLawLeaderLuckyConstitutionPrimariesSurvivedRule Of Law Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Our constitution enshrines the rule of law, freedom of worship and expression, we cherish these values too.” LawValuesExpressionWorshipConstitutionCherishRule Of Law Author:Hillary Clinton
“"The Constitution" has something called The Emoluments Clause. That's just a fancy, 18th century word for no foreign government payments. And Donald Trump is collecting foreign government payments and other benefits throughout his business.It is a direct violation of "The Constitution" and unless he divests, not just operations, he must divest from all business interests or he will be in violation of "The Constitution" from day one.” GovernmentInterestCenturyTrumpBenefitsDirectConstitutionOperationsFancyPaymentViolationCollectingClauses18th Century Author:Norman L. Eisen
“We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.” SaidResponsibilityTalkingConstitution Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I know for a fact that Ted Cruz every day uses two checklists - to guide him through his personal and professional life - and that is the Bible and the U.S. Constitution.” KnowsTwoFactsUseConstitutionGuidesCruzProfessional LifeChecklistsPersonal And Professional Life Author:Rick Perry
“Ted Cruz will point Americans back to the principles established by our Constitution enabling you to live free.” PrinciplesConstitutionEnablingCruzLive Free Author:Rick Perry
“The American people don't need to just hear about the importance of the Constitution or the Bible. They have to understand that those principles are in their best interests.” PeopleNeedsInterestPrinciplesImportanceConstitution Author:James Robison
“If you've worked together with somebody very well, leave-taking is very difficult. But we are all politicians. We all know that democracy lives off change. So, in the United States of America, the Constitution has very clear stipulations on this. It's a tough rule. Eight years and that's it, out goes the president and a new one comes in.” IfsKnowsYearsWellsStatesTogetherAmericaDifficultPresidentUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyClearPoliticianToughConstitutionEightUnited States Of AmericaStipulations Author:Angela Merkel
“It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.” Would BeWrittenConstitutionEnglandObjectivesPursueFrivolous Author:Quentin Crisp