Quotes of: Constitutions Keyword

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

Michele Bachmann

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Mary Cheney

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

Pete Coors

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Artur Davis

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

Al Franken

The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.

Benazir Bhutto

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

Caleb Cushing

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

William O. Douglas

My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.

Basmah bint Saud

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

Pope Benedict XVI

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

Stanley Hauerwas

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

Communication Power

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion.

Gun Control

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Michel Foucault

Constitutional democracy can only survive if the people of our nation are moral.

The Angels' Footpath

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

Writings And Speeches

Holding on, holding out and holding fast when the going is tough constitutes a winning mindset.

You Are a Star

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Reflections on the Revolution in France

I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case.

Michael Newdow

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Robert Bork

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Robert Byrd