Amendment Rights Quotes

The Republicans make a pastime of trashing the 1st Amendment while the Democrats pastime is trashing the 2nd Amendment.

We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.

The conservatives want to use the 2nd Amendment to shoot the 1st Amendment.

Arguments premised upon the Federal 2nd Amendment ... have never prevented regulation of firearms.

We're not against people demonstrating. We want people to exercise their 1st Amendment rights. They can do that by simply demonstrating across the street, in a way that doesn't block the door or harass women.

What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren't stupid, they're just bad.

The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates, and it fights fearlessly to win tough public policy battles and preserve those rights.

Our Second Amendment rights are not up for negotiation.

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.

No amendment of the proper kind would ever be obtained by the people, if the government should become oppressive, which I verily believe will be the case.

There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

You can't have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights.

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

Can you tell me what's more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their Fifth Amendment rights, their Fourteenth Amendment rights, and the right to equal protection under the law?

We all share the same goal to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them, while fully protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding, responsible Americans.

I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.

It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.

I'm not representing any organization. I represent the people of Ohio, and a lot of people in Ohio feel very strongly about their Second Amendment rights.

In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

Hillary Clinton wants to abolish - essentially abolish - the Second Amendment.

Being a bigot does not void your 1st Amendment rights.

Obama means to erase the Second Amendment by any means possible.

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.