The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can — Loretta Swit Copy Share Image
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine. — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country -… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
I think there are legal issues that arise out of the political process, and so the Supreme Court has to be prepared… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence… — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution. — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
If they just reverse the division, ban the judges, and then it'll discourage other judges from ever doing this. — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
If confirmed by the Senate to serve on the Supreme Court, I will keep an open mind in every case and always… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
The Constitution should contain a provision that every officer of the Government who should neglect or refuse to extend the protection guaranteed… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This country is always changing. But my point about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court didn't wait for the country to… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The Constitution provides for one democratic moment, Judge, before a lifetime of judicial independence, when the people of the United States are… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Now, I am not caring today, for myself, anything at all about a political party tag. So far as I am concerned,… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Today's decision affirms what we all know to be true — the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans,… — Chad Griffin Copy Share Image
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I believe in the Constitution. I believe in separation of powers. I believe in the rule of law. I believe in limited… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
How we decide the vexed issue of the method of selection of judges of the Supreme Court and the high courts would… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
“Wilson insisted that the centralized administrative state must, by logic and necessity, replace or thoroughly alter the constitutional structure—particularly the Framers’ incorporation… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it... There can be no… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues. — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is… — John Harrison Copy Share Image
In order to provide for their independence, the Constitution made judges of the superior courts immune from removal except by impeachment. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be… — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
My rights are precious, and I value those provided to me through the United States Constitution so much. — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy. — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
It's important that people understand that judges aren't making things up just from their own personal views of how the world should… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
“our Constitution can be understood by any American with average intelligence and minimal education.” — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
The fabric of our Constitution and our civilisational culture is based on tolerance. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen — John Adams Copy Share Image