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Constitution Quotes

I am not a lawyer or an expert on the Constitution. But as the chairman and CEO of a major health plan, I had a ringside seat to the entire health-care reform process.

Health I Am Lawyer Constitution Plan

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

Power Money Constitution Credit Only

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

Change Constitution Living Quite Bit

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!'

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Success Justice Job Constitution Us

We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

Law Democracy Constitution Within

Native Americans have faced centuries of atrocities to their people, their land, and their culture - all under various presidents who took an oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Markwayne Mullin

Culture People Constitution Land

In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the Constitution, willing to follow the law. Obama doesn't care. He is the law.

Work People Law Constitution Care

The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.

Constitution Political Used Absurd

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Constitution Rich American Political

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

Martin Van Buren

Myself Me Constitution Country Duty

I noticed that parts of the opposition have been hostile to any revision of the constitution.

Francois Hollande

Constitution Opposition Revision Been

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

Law Constitution Years Watergate Us

The Constitution separated the ideologies and values of the Church from the State, and leaders of the State were thus educated in matters pertaining to the State. These leaders proved themselves time after time with their pragmatic intellectual capacities.

Time Constitution Church Values

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

Democracy Constitution Find Person

Just because there are people who violate rules, behave illegally and so on, it does not mean that everybody is like that. On the contrary, if you watch certain judges, you observe that they honestly try to implement what they believe the Constitution says and just put it into effect.

People Believe Constitution You Try

Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.

Constitution Fighting Keep Uphold

A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.

Adrian Cronauer

Simple People Law Constitution Land

I took an oath when I became secretary of homeland security to defend and support the Constitution.

Kirstjen Nielsen

Support Constitution Security Defend

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Opportunity Freedom Constitution Our

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Destiny Constitution Country Flag

Nadine Gordimer came over just before she died. She didn't want to talk about books or the arts, but about the abuse of the constitution by the government.

Justin Cartwright

Government Constitution Want Talk

The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.

Truth Law Constitution Truth Is Our

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

Power Free Constitution Lost

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

Alone Constitution Nation Sense

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