Amendments Quotes

Our fundamental instrument of government [the Constitution] is an evolving document.

Are you willing to let any President choose what laws to enforce and what laws to change?

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

The Second Amendment is not really a right.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62.

The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.

The very document that protects our liberties more than anything else, the Constitution, was, of course, drafted in total secrecy.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Basically, if you become president, you must swear to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and what the Constitution says.

The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments.

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.

I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things.

Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

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.

I'm always a little cautious, there's a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I've been more concerned about over regulating, going too far.

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

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

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

That's in the First Amendment?

The Opera House guidelines have from time to time been amended, whether it's for other sporting events or other causes. The guidelines have always been stretched in the part and the commercialisation of the Opera House has always been there.

The Constitution has to be supreme.

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