All Quotes

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
‐‐ John Ciardi

The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.
‐‐ Trent Franks

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.
‐‐ John Jay Hooker

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'
‐‐ Laurence Tribe

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.
‐‐ Eric Holder

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.
‐‐ David Souter

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.
‐‐ Francis Biddle

The Constitution I uphold and defend is the one I carry in my pocket all the time, the U.S. Constitution. I don't know what Constitution that other members of Congress uphold, but it's not this one. I think the only Constitution that Barack Obama upholds is the Soviet constitution, not this one.
‐‐ Paul Broun

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
‐‐ Salmon Portland Chase

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.
‐‐ Carl Levin

The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.
‐‐ David Souter

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.
‐‐ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The Constitution is a total living document that can change quite a bit.
‐‐ Mark Kirk

The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.
‐‐ John Barrasso

The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.
‐‐ John Marshall

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.
‐‐ Pope Theodoros II

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann

The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
‐‐ Vayalar Ravi

The Constitution is man-made, so it is not perfect. It's not the basis of my beliefs. My belief system is based on the Scriptures which come from God.
‐‐ Rick Warren

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.
‐‐ Mike Honda

The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.
‐‐ David Souter

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.
‐‐ John Marshall Harlan

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
‐‐ George Washington

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.
‐‐ Mwai Kibaki

The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is the role of Congress to debate and authorize this before the President acts precipitously.
‐‐ Joe Pitts

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
‐‐ Harry Browne

The Constitution makes very clear what the obligation of the United States Senate is and what the obligation of the president of the United States is. To allow a Supreme Court position to remain vacant for well over a year cuts against what I think the intentions of the framers are and what the traditions of the Senate and the executive are.
‐‐ Cory Booker

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.
‐‐ Lee Greenwood

The Constitution of the United States has absolutely nothing to say about a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Were the federal courts to recognize such a right, it would be completely without constitutional basis.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
‐‐ David Davis

The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.
‐‐ Samuel Freeman Miller

The Constitution of the United States... specifically states the Congress shall write legislation for immigration policy in the United States.
‐‐ John Carter

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.
‐‐ John H. Reagan

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
‐‐ Henry Clay

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.
‐‐ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.
‐‐ George William Norris

The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.
‐‐ Benjamin N. Cardozo

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
‐‐ James Madison

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
‐‐ Lamar S. Smith

The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.
‐‐ James Lankford

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
‐‐ Larry J. Sabato

The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on.
‐‐ Kevin Bleyer

The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.
‐‐ Rand Paul

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
‐‐ Michael Newdow

The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo