Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Ultimately, you are judged by a jury if you are a lawyer speaking to that jury, and you have to show respect… — Clay Travis Copy Share Image
Be it Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian, we aim to uphold the peaceful existence of society in terms with the Constitution of… — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There is no sentence in the United States Constitution that says the president's children cannot be indicted. — Matthew Whitaker Copy Share Image
A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution,… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
“I have been so struck by the mettle of the men who founded this country and wrote the Constitution. What unbelievable persistence… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Continued reliance on preemption analysis suppresses judicial attention to the discrimination and equality concerns that should be motivating courts' consideration of subfederal… — Pratheepan Gulasekaram Copy Share Image
If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing, in the US we all believe that we have a right to go to school. We have a… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the… — Adam Kokesh Copy Share Image
When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Before I could become a military officer or a Member of Congress, I was required to do one thing: Take an oath… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution? Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them. — Rexford Tugwell Copy Share Image
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I don't deviate one millimetre from the rules that are agreed to in the Constitution. — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I tell myself I bear witness. The real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image