Quotes About Constitution

The Founders deliberately limited presidential authority.

Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

There's no debt limit in the Constitution.

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

We believe in rule of law not rule by decree.

I defended our Constitution and I always will.

I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

You don't have a constitutional right or a moral right to demand entry into any country.

Democracy demands sacrifice. Democracy demands that the rules of the game be respected just as the constitution requires.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

We have to have a good look at the Constitution. Let's determine where the shortcomings are. Then we can start talking of clauses.

It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.

Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

In the Constitution of India the Supreme Court and the High Courts were seen as watchdog bodies, independent of the executive, and entrusted with the task of seeing that all institutions function in accordance with the Constitution, and the Rule of Law.

The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.

I aim to create a federal government which respects the constitution, which respects taxpayers.

I certainly would not deny that the Tea Party, the issues that they have looked at are certainly important to me as well... debt and deficit and recognition of the Constitution.

The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job as being 'spend cash mon-nay' rather than execute the Constitution.

The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

The silence of many is deafening. Especially when our country is under attack by those who challenge the moral values of our Constitution.