Amendments Quotes

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

The Second Amendment is not really a right.

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.