Agreement Quote by John Jay Hooker

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was…

— Ezra Taft Benson

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up…

— Fred Thompson

That's what the founding fathers intended, that most decisions be made at the state level, not at the federal level.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for…

— Fred Thompson

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they…

— Elihu Root

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

— Spencer Abraham

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

— Barack Obama

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

— Cullen Hightower

The Court's decision reflects the philosophy that judges should endure whatever interpretive distortions it takes in order to correct a supposed flaw in the…

— Antonin Scalia

One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn't get run over and could bring…

— Kent Conrad

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the…

— Vincent Bugliosi