What is government itself but the greatest of all…

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that…

— Charles B. Rangel

I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents…

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has…

— Helen Thomas

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

— Roger Wicker

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of…

— Thomas Jefferson

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is…

— Frank Hague

It didn't really change my opinion about [Edward] Snowden all that much, but I definitely feel like as a culture, it gave us information…

— Zachary Quinto

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may…

— James MacGregor Burns

Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.

— Pat Paulsen

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

— Jon Ossoff

When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they…

— Bobby Seale

People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a…

— Rand Paul

The Democrats have made no secret of wanting to unilaterally infringe upon the Constitutional rights of the American people to keep and bear arms.

— Byron Donalds

“A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and wherever it…

— Thomas Paine

What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights.

— Matthew Dowd