Constitution Quotes - Page 16

Innocent Americans are murdered, and what happens? An entire political party and an amendment to the US Constitution gets blamed.

Donald Trump doesn't believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact.

The Constitution says nothing about anchor babies. The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship.

The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

The Constitution was written to protect individual freedom and limit the ability of the government to encroach upon it. The liberals don't like that. The Democrats are very unhappy. The Constitution limits government too much. So they want to rewrite it, have a second Bill of Rights. So they want a new Bill of Rights that spells out what government can do instead of a Bill of Rights that tells government what it can't do.

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

Why is it that some people, you know, think we should obey the Constitution sometimes and not other times.

I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to run your life. And the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.

It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute.

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

Ted Cruz will point Americans back to the principles established by our Constitution enabling you to live free.

[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans' records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they're both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed by U.S. occupation authorities and their Iraqi dependents, and thus lacking in legal or political legitimacy.

I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.