Block Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (the Guffey Coal Control Bill)

— Franklin D Roosevelt

We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view…

— Arlen Specter

The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation.

— John McCain

Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an…

— Sheila Jackson Lee

Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.

— Arnold Kling

I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution

— Saxby Chambliss

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

“To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get it signed…

— Michael Gerson

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

— Joseph Sobran

And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for…

— Robert Walpole

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do…

— Major Owens

I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are…

— Barbara Jordan