First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending… — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves. — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. — Socrates Copy Share Image
An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
The Constitution is designed to inconvenience one person from taking us to war. War is a very solemn and sobering and extraordinary… — Ron Dellums Copy Share Image
Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent,… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English.… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
People already think the court is there to become the final word on controversial political questions. So everybody looks to the Supreme… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think our society is fragmented. Messages regarding human sexuality have always been mixed in America. We are a schizophrenic nation. We… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think frustration unfortunately, reflects a real breakdown in the political parties themselves, which is fascinating because our constitution did not anticipate… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy… Too much importance… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The most contentious Supreme Court battles are when a Republican nominates someone to replace a liberal justice. — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When drafting our Constitution, the Founders took great care to ensure our military is above politics, that its leaders were civilians. — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I haven't given up on my country. I believe in the potential. I believe in the Constitution. — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy. — John Redwood Copy Share Image
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people.… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench. — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely."… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our… — Juan Guerrero Burciaga Copy Share Image
It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth. — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment… — Elton Gallegly Copy Share Image
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