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.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

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The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.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

[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.

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.

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.

I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

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

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

The 14th Amendment is very questionable as to whether or not somebody can come over, have a baby and immediately that baby is a citizen.

The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation.

The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

It has been pretty much downhill ever since the 13th amendment

There's nothing in the 14th Amendment about anchor babies.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

That's in the First Amendment?

To a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.

We will save our Second Amendment, which is totally under siege.

Donald Trump is a staunch believer in the Second Amendment.

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

The14th Amendment does not require birthright citizenship. It doesn't mention it.

I think it's unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front.

We are going to save our Second Amendment.

Hillary Clinton is apparently very happy about [Barack] Obama clamping down on your 2nd Amendment rights.

I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.

These liberals are the craziest things. The Constitution, they see things in it that aren't there and ignore things which are. The 14th Amendment, nothing to do with gay marriage.

The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank.

One of the things I will do very early in my administration is to get rid of the Johnson Amendment so that our great pastors and ministers and rabbis and - and everybody - and priests and everybody can go and tell and can participate in the process.