How is it appropriate for a judge ever to say that they will choose to see some facts and not others? — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through… — Zoe Lofgren Copy Share Image
In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable. — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
Under our Constitution, if you're a bad citizen, you're still a citizen; that's the way we roll. — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws. — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge]. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
With the EU taking in ten more countries and adopting a new Constitution, organisations need more than ever intelligent professional help in… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The lack of judicial accountability exemplified by the lack of a system of selecting judges and of dealing with complaints against them,… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
The beauty of our court system is that anybody can enter the court and sue. Uh, you have to be appointed to… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
That so much power over the U.S. nuclear arsenal is placed in the hands of one man - any man - bodes… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“The possibility of a question of this nature, proves the necessity of laying the foundations of our National Government deeper than in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Mr. Wilson, writing long before he became President, also knew how it came about that this Constitution, which the rich men of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg came in front of the Senate and was approved 96-3 to be on the Supreme Court to replace… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
I am concerned that Donald Trump walks into the White House a walking conflict of interest in violation of the emoluments clause… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution. — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Given the state of libel law, whenever a public figure gets to face a jury, it is a victory. — Jonathan Lubell Copy Share Image
“Intercourse without prophylactic devices was universal before their invention. Can we just replace the entire US Constitution with this sentence? It’s that… — Conor Lastowka Copy Share Image
Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or… — Thomas Sherlock Copy Share Image
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court overrules, distinguishes, and upholds prior precedents. Sometimes it ignores them. But it does not - cannot - 'defy' them. — Wendy Long Copy Share Image