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Amendment Quotes
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress. - Dick Thornburgh Quotes
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation. - Elton Gallegly Quotes
The US constitutions First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. - Joichi Ito Quotes
The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery. - Robin Williams Quotes
He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property. - Dixie Lee Ray Quotes
And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today. - Michael Burgess Quotes
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in mens struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. - William O Douglas Quotes
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. - Al Sharpton Quotes
In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security. - Russ Carnahan Quotes
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. - Robert Bork Quotes
As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate. - Arlen Specter Quotes
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture. - Kurt Loder Quotes
Im knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman. - Jimmy Swaggart Quotes
While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage. - John Boehner Quotes
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage. - Corrine Brown Quotes
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. - Thurgood Marshall Quotes
I fought for Texas teachers Social Security benefits by advocating the amendment to the Teacher Social Security Protection Act that protected them. - Solomon Ortiz Quotes
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing its a lie and theyre protected if the persons famous or its a company. - Steve Wozniak Quotes
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state. - Michael K Simpson Quotes
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why dont they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. - Will Rogers Quotes
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. - Ben Nelson Quotes
The American people are overwhelmingly supportive of a constitutional amendment that will protect traditional marriage between one man and one woman. - Todd Tiahrt Quotes
For the life of me, I dont understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. - Dianne Feinstein Quotes
None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act. - Sam Brownback Quotes
The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and thats fine. Thats what the First Amendment is all about. - Rich Lowry Quotes
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. - Judy Biggert Quotes
First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights. - Cliff Stearns Quotes
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech. - Pete Wilson Quotes
I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. - Mary Cheney Quotes
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. - Justice Anthony Kennedy Quotes
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