“I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution” DifferentMatterVoteConstitutionIsolationUrgesEthnicity Author:Jalal Talabani
“I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.” NeedsBelievePastI BelieveJudgingVoteConstitutionDemocratSuitsVotingAgendasVotersFringe Author:David Letterman
“It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them whether or not we are disappointed with the current crew. At least they believe in the Constitution. At least they have an idea of economic justice. The Republicans are devoted to creating more rich folks.” BelieveImportantIdeasSelfInterestJusticeCasesRichEconomicRepublicanCreatingVoteConstitutionFolksCurrentsExtremesDisappointedDevotedCrewSelf InterestEconomic Justice Author:Gloria Steinem
“I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as he is. He does seem to actually want to write, for example, a prohibition against abortion into the Constitution , which Ronald Reagan, for all his talking about it, never tried to do one time.” ThinkingWantWritingDoeHardSeemsWould BeTalkingExampleVoteConstitutionMinistersAbortionOne TimeProhibitionFundamentalistHampshireNew HampshireAgainst AbortionAffable Author:Mike Huckabee
“However, what Article VI [of the U.S. Constitution] does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right to say, as loudly as I may choose, that I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is.” MayDoeFactsStupidVoteAccountsConstitutionDenyArticlesMikePrimatesHicksLike Mike Author:Mike Huckabee
“Democracy means that if this man,you Miss and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even put that in the constitution.” IfsMenMeanSleepDemocracyMissingVoteConstitutionMajorityIslandsTrapped Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke
“This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We, conservatives, want a particular legal philosophy, a philosophy for how to interpret the Constitution.” WayWantPhilosophyCertainDifferencesJusticeParticularVoteConstitution Author:Ann Coulter
“So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.” MayLongStatesLevelsVoteConstitutionTwentiesIdiotTwenty OneSuffrageConvictsWoman Suffrage Author:Susan B. Anthony
“I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.” VoteConstitutionIndependentReformGuaranteesAttorney Author:Christopher Dodd
“There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.” HumansCountryStatesMoralStruggleIssuesRightsVoteConstitutionFellowsHuman RightsDenyCommandRight To VoteMoral IssuesStates RightsVoting Rights Act Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.” IfsWantNeedsEnoughPhilosophyCitizensVoteConstitutionCurrentsGatheringWant SomethingGoverningJudicialFiddleRecalcitrant Author:Robert Bork
“If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.” IfsPersonsStatesStoriesCertainUnitedLibertyOpinionUnited StatesRightsIdentityPromiseVoteConstitutionPaidCourtFortuneSupremeRealmsReasoningBagsAphorismMysticalSupreme CourtFifthCookiesGay MarriageDissentMeltingFortune CookieSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticeCourt Decision Author:Antonin Scalia
“When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.” WhiteVoteConstitutionMalesRight To Vote Author:Jesse Jackson
“Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal rights under the Constitution. My question for the GOP candidates: Do you support the Equal Rights Amendment?” YearsStillsSupportRightsEqualVoteConstitutionCandidatesAmendmentsEqual RightsSecuredRight To VoteGopEqual Rights Amendment Author:Jane Fonda
“You have to let the people vote when it comes to a new constitution.” PeopleVoteConstitution Author:Martin Schulz
“Justice O'Connor was the fifth vote to uphold the time-honored principle, which bears repeating, of separation of church and state. There was real wisdom in the decision of our forefathers in writing a Constitution that gave us an opportunity to grow as such a diverse nation, and we should never forget it.” ShouldWritingRealStatesOpportunityNationsGrowsChurchJusticeDecisionForgetPrinciplesBearsVoteConstitutionSeparationNever ForgetDiverseHonoredFifthForget ItChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateForefathersReal Wisdom Author:Dick Durbin
“I remember George Mitchell - I was doing the Clarence Thomas hearing, and there were 48 senators declared they were not prepared to vote for him at the front end. We could have filibustered that and stopped it. George and I - George was the leader at the time - took the heat from every liberal group saying, "No, no, that's not the way the system is supposed to work, since the Constitution - the president shall propose and the Constitution shall dispose, we're going to let them hear this."” WayEndsRememberPresidentLeaderGroupsFrontsVoteConstitutionPreparedHearingHeatSenatorsProposeSaying No Author:Joe Biden
“The Constitution says the President shall nominate, not maybe he could, maybe he can't, he shall nominate. Implicit in the Constitution is that the Senate will act on its constitutional responsibility and give its advice and consent. No one is required to vote for the nominee.” GivingPresidentResponsibilityAdviceVoteConstitutionSenateConsentImplicit Author:Joe Biden
“The people that can't win elections, outside of Barack Obama, the people on the Democrat side who cannot win elections, who do not have the votes to stop Donald Trump at all in a constitutional sense, have to now behave outside the Constitution in order to stop the duly elected president of the United States about whom they can produce no evidence that his election was fraudulent.” PeopleStatesOrderWinningSidesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesProduceTrumpEvidenceVoteConstitutionElectionDemocratBarackBehaveCan't Win Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist populist [Donald Trump] who is now in the White House with an authoritarian strongman who has no regard for facts, no regard for tradition, and no regard for the Constitution. That is what you get when you import third world conditions. You get third world politics, and that's where we are now.” WorldFactsHouseWhiteConditionsTrumpPercentTraditionVoteThirdsConstitutionRegardDemocraticPrimariesWhite HouseSocialistThird WorldImportsPopulistWorld Politics Author:Van Jones
“The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them in any meaningful way, you have to bring in the roles of African Americans - the enslaved blacks - and the roles of women, who were scarcely acknowledged by those documents. You have to discuss why slavery wasn't outlawed by the Constitution, why women weren't given the votes. The Bill of Rights isn't about dead white males anymore, and it's not just about live white males either; it's about every minority group that exists.” VoteConstitutionIndependenceSlaveryMeaningfulAfrican AmericanDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceBill Of Rights Author:Russell Freedman
“To all those in the sound of my voice who share our values, who know that we can be a stronger America at home and abroad, a more prosperous America - that we can revive America the way that Ronald Reagan did in the 1980s, and that we can add justices to the Supreme Court who honor and uphold our Constitution - now is the time to come out, to take the time to cast that vote and make Donald Trump the president of the United States.” HomeValuesPresidentJusticeShareHonorVoteConstitutionStrongerSupreme CourtProsperous Author:Mike Pence
“I understand the politics of the situation, I think that many Republican members of the senate believe that,get out the vote move. They can indicate that they're strong for their base. But the Constitution's pretty clear. The president Donald Trump has to nominate someone. The senate can choose to disapprove. There's nothing in their Constitution that says the grounds upon which they must vote. But to refuse even to meet with the individual, or to have the process go forward, that's just pure politics.” ThinkingBelieveMovingIndividualStrongPresidentSituationRepublicanVoteConstitution Author:Martha Minow
“In the era of modern technology, people could just vote on their phones for who they want to be judges. We could amend all of the ways in which we select our leaders, with the advent of modern technology. We haven't done so. It's actually served us fairly well. Ours is the longest enduring constitutional, written constitution in the world. At the moment, I think it's strained. It's showing the strains of politics and a frustration.” PeopleThinkingWorldDoneMomentsLeaderTechnologyModernJudgingVoteConstitutionEndureFrustrationSelectAdventModern Technology Author:Martha Minow
“I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.” ShouldPoliticsMarriageGayVoteConstitutionDefenseSenateCornyProposalBansMarrying Author:Barack Obama
“I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.” WellsEconomyVoteConstitutionPaidDebtMonstersPatrioticPennies Author:Ron Paul
“We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.” NeedsGivingGovernmentVoteConstitutionAmendmentsProtectedFederal GovernmentRight To Vote Author:Al Sharpton
“In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'” PeopleWellsSaidMatterFactsLawPresidentVoteConstitutionClintonSenatorsSupporterMatter Of FactSlamAccusingPresident ClintonImpeachmentAccusing MeObama Supporters Author:J. C. Watts
“Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth. Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail. Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. America, in the assembly of nations, has uniformly spoken among them the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights.” PeopleMayEarthAmericaFoundLostLanguageNationsJusticePowerfulNumbersLibertyPrinciplesRightsFailingSweetEqualLosingReflectionWeakVoteBasesConstitutionBlessedProportionMost PowerfulAttachmentCherishPortionsEqual RightsAssemblyGood SenseEqual Justice Author:John Quincy Adams
“She later said: "If the Irish people vote in favour of gay marriage then I'll vote for gay marriage in the Oireachtas in order to recognise that position, but at the moment that is not recognised by the Constitution."” PeopleIfsSaidMomentsOrderPositionGayVoteConstitutionFavourGay MarriageRecogniseGay Rights Author:Lucinda Creighton
“Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South Carolina has probably decided favourably before this time. The plot thickens fast. A few short weeks will determine the political fate of America for the present generation, and probably produce no small influence on the happiness of society through a long succession of ages to come.” LongStillsAgeAmericaPoliticalNextFateGenerationsWeekInfluenceProduceDecidedVoteConstitutionSouthDeterminePlotConventionsAdoptionMondaySuccessionVirginiaCarolinaSouth Carolina Author:George Washington
“It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result not of theory, but "of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable" . . . the equal vote allowed to each state, is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual states, and an instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty.” TryingStatesHandsPoliticalSpiritIndividualResultsSituationTheoryEqualStandardsVoteConstitutionInstrumentsRecognitionMutualPortionsIndispensableSovereigntySuperfluousConcessionsDeferenceFederalismAmity Author:James Madison
“Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.” ThinkingWritingHardThreeFatherHard WorkVoteConstitutionCompromiseFoundingNeglectedOur Founding FathersRight To VoteQuills Author:Mo Rocca